Re: [HM] First incommensurables, Theaetetus, etc
Michael Deakin (mdeakin@gizmo.maths.monash.edu.au)
Tue, 22 Dec 1998 11:57:22 +1000
> It could certainly have meant the diagonal and side of a pentagon, whose
> incommensurability is even easier to prove from the Euclidean algorithm
> than that of the diagonal and side of a square.
>
This is precisely the von Fritz claim, and what Ash made even easier
by using a golden rectangle, but the problem is the lack of any
significant documentation.
Mike Deakin