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- Konstrukcije:
- - Geometry is the basis of everything
- - Numbers arise from the geometry
- - Constructable numbers
- - Famous problems:
- Squaring the circle
- Trisecting an angle
- Doubling the cube
- - 17 - gon (heptagon) construction
- Zeno of Elea:
- - Famous Zeno's paradoxes
- - reductio ad absurdum
- - Achilles and the tortoise
- - Dichotomy paradox
- - Arrow paradox
- - "if everything that exists has a place, place too will have a place, and so on ad infinitum" - Aristotel
- Diophantus
- - "the father of algebra"
- - forgotten during the Dark Ages
- - puzzle of Metrodorus:
- 'Here lies Diophantus,' the wonder behold.
- Through art algebraic, the stone tells how old:
- 'God gave him his boyhood one-sixth of his life,
- One twelfth more as youth while whiskers grew rife;
- And then yet one-seventh ere marriage begun;
- In five years there came a bouncing new son.
- Alas, the dear child of master and sage
- After attaining half the measure of his father's life chill fate took him.
- After consoling his fate by the science of numbers for four years, he ended his life.'
- - Arithmetica
- - Polygonal numbers
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