person
Pythagoras
also: Пифагор
The ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher, whose theorem's diagram is nicknamed "Pythagoras's trousers" in Russian schoolroom slang -- the pun this entry literalizes.
Reading notes
- The Alarm Clock's Calendar §216 Pythagoras invented the Pythagorean trousers
A classic Russian schoolboy pun: the diagram of the Pythagorean theorem is nicknamed "Pythagoras's trousers" (*pifagorovy shtany*) in Russian classroom slang; the calendar literalizes the pun into an actual invented garment.