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Eudoxus of Cnidus (c. 390–c. 340 BCE) and the Method of Exhaustion #histsci thonyc.wordpress.com/2026/07/30/t...
Take it to the limit one more time – a history of calculus IIAccording to legend the Pythagoreans were devastated when they discovered that the diagonal of a unit square is an irrational number, because they believed that the natural numbers were the buildin…thonyc.wordpress.com