Root Two, Geometry Or Arithmetic
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Format: 16mm
Sound: sound
Description: Focuses on a mathematical problem in which a length was discovered which did not correspond to a number which could be represented by the length of a line or the ratio between two lengths. Tells how the problem of irrational numbers undermined the development of calculus in the 17th and 18th centuries. Explains how these problems were solved by Eudoxus and Richard Dedekind respectively.
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