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  1. Konstrukcije:
  2. - Geometry is the basis of everything
  3. - Numbers arise from the geometry
  4. - Constructable numbers
  5. - Famous problems:
  6. Squaring the circle
  7. Trisecting an angle
  8. Doubling the cube
  9.  
  10. - 17 - gon (heptagon) construction
  11.  
  12. Zeno of Elea:
  13. - Famous Zeno's paradoxes
  14. - reductio ad absurdum
  15. - Achilles and the tortoise
  16. - Dichotomy paradox
  17. - Arrow paradox
  18. - "if everything that exists has a place, place too will have a place, and so on ad infinitum" - Aristotel
  19.  
  20. Diophantus
  21. - "the father of algebra"
  22. - forgotten during the Dark Ages
  23. - puzzle of Metrodorus:
  24. 'Here lies Diophantus,' the wonder behold.
  25. Through art algebraic, the stone tells how old:
  26. 'God gave him his boyhood one-sixth of his life,
  27. One twelfth more as youth while whiskers grew rife;
  28. And then yet one-seventh ere marriage begun;
  29. In five years there came a bouncing new son.
  30. Alas, the dear child of master and sage
  31. After attaining half the measure of his father's life chill fate took him.
  32. After consoling his fate by the science of numbers for four years, he ended his life.'
  33. - Arithmetica
  34. - Polygonal numbers
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