20 Nov
2012
20 Nov
'12
7:48 p.m.
Thanks, Hans! --Dan On 2012-11-20, at 5:05 PM, Hans Havermann wrote:
Dan Asimov:
Does anyone know who first thought of the following proof that sqrt(2) is irrational?
It looks like Tom M. Apostol's proof, published as "Irrationality of The Square Root of Two - A Geometric Proof" in the American Mathematical Monthly, November 2000, pp. 841–842. _______________________________________________ math-fun mailing list math-fun@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/math-fun