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Some irrational numbers

  • Aigner M
  • Ziegler G
Springer Berlin Heidelberg, (2018), 47-53
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-57265-8_8
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Abstract

This was already conjectured by Aristotle, when he claimed that diameter and circumference of a circle are not commensurable. The first proof of this fundamental fact was given by Johann Heinrich Lambert in 1766.

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Aigner, M., & Ziegler, G. M. (2018). Some irrational numbers. In Proofs from THE BOOK (pp. 47–53). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-57265-8_8

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