scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1414205

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Authors Maurice Caveing

Publication date 14 March 2000

zbMATH Keywords

ArchytasirrationalitymusicPell's equationPythagoras

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to history and biography (01-02) General histories, source books (01A05) History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20)

Review text

Das Werk vermittelt einen profunden und bestens belegten Überblick über die Irrationalität der Zahlen bei den Griechen. I. Les procédés de calcul approché de racines irrationnelles. Näherungswerte bei den Babyloniern und den Griechen. Heron und die Gleichung von Pell. II. Les contextes mathématiques favorables à la découverte de l'irrationalité. Musik, Archytas. Vorgeschichte des Lehrsatzes von Pythagoras. III. Les preuves particulières d'irrationalité. Euklid X, 115a bzw. 117. Beweis der Irrationalität von \(\sqrt 2\). Ausdehnung auf weitere Wurzeln, neuere Untersuchungen. IV. La preuve générale d'irrationalité dans Euclide. Euklid X, 1-9. Das Buch X galt stets als besonders schwierig (Cl. Thaer). V. Les principes de la théorie des ``raisons entre grandeurs. Euklid V, Vorgänger von X,2 und X,9. Conclusion: Überblick über Euklid II, VII und VIII. [For Vol. 1 and 2 see Zbl 0906.01003 and Zbl 0920.01002]

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