Timeline for Problem Understanding Euclid Book 10 Proposition 1 [closed]
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| Aug 6, 2019 at 6:21 | history | closed |
user44191 Andrés E. Caicedo Steven Sam YCor Alexandre Eremenko |
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| Aug 5, 2019 at 5:36 | history | edited | user64494 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
The title is improved.
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| Aug 5, 2019 at 0:48 | answer | added | Todd Trimble | timeline score: 4 | |
| S Aug 4, 2019 at 20:43 | history | suggested | Ali Taghavi |
I add two tags.
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| Aug 4, 2019 at 20:42 | comment | added | user304582 | I don't think that Euclid is appealing to induction (at least not explicitly), but I can't make sense of how the division of the DE line is done, so that it avoids induction. | |
| Aug 4, 2019 at 20:40 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Aug 4, 2019 at 19:25 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Aug 4, 2019 at 19:20 | comment | added | Gerhard Paseman | Further, the proof attempt might be an old style attempt at induction: if we can handle magnitudes this big, then this is how you handle magnitudes twice as big as what we can handle. Gerhard "Inferring This, Not Inducing This" Paseman, 2019.08.04. | |
| Aug 4, 2019 at 19:16 | comment | added | Gerhard Paseman | This might be better at math.stackexchange. The basic idea behind this (as I read it) is that there is a process for reducing (or finding a part of) one magnitude so that it can be less than given magnitude C. Further the process of "repeatedly dividing by half" will do this. Gerhard "But The Referee Might Disagree" Paseman, 2019.08.04. | |
| Aug 4, 2019 at 18:58 | history | asked | user304582 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |