Permalink Submitted by Thomas Lang on September 2, 2019
That's the problem though: the proof through unique factorisation assumes the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic, which needs to be built from the ground up first. Either way, the irrationality of root 2 is a great piece of mathematics both for us and the ancient humans.
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That's the problem though: the proof through unique factorisation assumes the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic, which needs to be built from the ground up first. Either way, the irrationality of root 2 is a great piece of mathematics both for us and the ancient humans.