The great mathematician in Ancient Greece in the thirteenth feat of Hercules?

In the text of the story of the writer Fazil Abdulovich Iskander “The Thirteenth Feat of Hercules”, you can find a mention of the famous ancient Greek scientist, mathematician and philosopher Pythagoras of Samos and his well-known theorem that establishes the relationship between the sides in a right triangle: the sum of squares of lengths is equal to the square of the length of the hypotenuse. Its formulation is given in the form of a playful encryption “Pythagorean pants are equal on all sides.” Since the squares built on the sides of the triangle, diverging in different directions, resembled men’s pants, memorizing this poetic phrase helped schoolchildren to understand the essence of the theorem. In the story itself, the author jokingly casts doubt on the postulate of the theorem, since, according to his observations, all mathematicians are quite brilliant and, like all genius people, are a little sloppy and scattered in everyday life, therefore their pants are hardly equal, since they rarely pay attention to their appearance. It is possible that Pythagoras himself had everything in order with his pants, however, the writer does not forget to notice. Reading such a beginning of the story, the reader immediately understands that it will be about school, students, teachers and their relationships.