Tag Archives: Euclid

Showing a rational function is irreducible

Posted on February 27, 2022 by Sumant Sumant

Prove that the fraction is irreducible for every natural number

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Euclid’s big problem

Posted on January 13, 2015 by Sumant Sumant

First watch this video This video is a good introduction about the 3 classical problems of antiquity. The way to introduced is first by bisecting a segment, then bisecting an angle and then doubling the square. Which leads to the … Continue reading →

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Euclid’s Proof of Perfect Number

Posted on January 5, 2015 by Sumant Sumant

We call a number a perfect number when . Euclid proved that if is prime then will be a perfect number. The proof is easy to see. Let us call . So the factors of are . Adding these in … Continue reading →

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