Dedekind's Theorem: √2 × √3 = √6

DOI10.2307/2324238MaRDI QIDQ4025323zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors David Fowler

Publication date 18 February 1993

Published in The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/2324238

zbMATH Keywords

real numbers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20) History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of real functions (26-03)

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