Pythagorean Book II of the \textit{Elements} restored and Pythagorean incommensurabilities reconstructed

DOI10.1007/978-3-031-76257-4_13MaRDI QIDQ6965360zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors S. Negrepontis, Vassiliki Farmaki

Publication date 3 July 2025

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-76257-4_13

zbMATH Keywords

Euclid's \textit{Elements}incommensurability proofPell equationPythagorean arithmeticside and diagonal numbers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20)

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