Irrationality From The Book
Abstract
We generalize Tennenbaum's geometric proof of the irrationality of sqrt(2) to sqrt(n) for n = 3, 5, 6 and 10. Modified version published in Mathematics Magazine 85 (2012), no. 2, 110--114.
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