Tag: Parity (mathematics)

• The proof that frightened Pythagoras

  I have been meaning to do this for a while … Pythagoras was said to be shocked by the proof that is an irrational number (i.e., that it cannot be represented as a ratio of two whole numbers). The proof (by contradiction) is a simple one. If is rational then and where and are the…

  Adrian McMenamin

  June 21, 2013

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  Irrational number, mathematics, Parity (mathematics), Pythagoras