The Classical Problems of Greek Mathematics

Dietmar Herrmann ()

Chapter Chapter 11 in Ancient Mathematics, 2022, pp 165-185 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The fact that the ratio of the diagonal to the side in a square is not commensurable was a great disappointment to the early Pythagoreans, who believed that (Everything is a number) all ratios are commensurable, i.e. representable by a ratio of whole numbers.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-66494-0_11

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