Irrationality From The Book

• Published in 2009
• Added on 2014-12-01

We generalize Tennenbaum's geometric proof of the irrationality of sqrt(2) to sqrt(n) for n = 3, 5, 6 and 10.

Links

• http://arxiv.org/abs/0909.4913
• http://arxiv.org/pdf/0909.4913v2

Other information

BibTeX entry

@article{Miller2009a,
	key = {Miller2009a},
	type = {article},
	title = {Irrationality From The Book},
	author = {Miller, Steven J. and Montague, David},
	abstract = {We generalize Tennenbaum's geometric proof of the irrationality of sqrt(2) to
sqrt(n) for n = 3, 5, 6 and 10.},
	comment = {},
	date_added = {2014-12-01},
	date_published = {2009-09-01},
	urls = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0909.4913,http://arxiv.org/pdf/0909.4913v2},
	collections = {About proof,Fun maths facts},
	month = {sep},
	url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0909.4913 http://arxiv.org/pdf/0909.4913v2},
	year = 2009,
	archivePrefix = {arXiv},
	eprint = {0909.4913},
	primaryClass = {math.HO},
	urldate = {2014-12-01}
}