Irrationality of the square root of 2: the early Pythagorean proof, Theodorus's and Theaetetus's generalizations

DOI10.1007/S00283-014-9521-XMaRDI QIDQ906027zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Zoran Lučić

Publication date 29 January 2016

Published in The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-014-9521-x

zbMATH Keywords

EuclidTheaetetusPythagorasTheodorus

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20) History of number theory (11-03) Irrationality; linear independence over a field (11J72)

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