Irrational number number to ratios of continuous magnitude. In his commentary on Book 10 of the "Elements", the Persian mathematician Al-Mahani (d. 874/884) examined and classified quadratic irrationals and cubic irrationals. He provided definitions for rational and irrational magnitudes, which he treated as irrational numbers. He dealt with them freely but explains them in geometric terms as follows: In contrast to Euclid's concept of magnitudes as lines, Al-Mahani considered integers and fractions as rational magnitudes, and square roots and cube roots as irrational magnitudes. He also introduced an arithmetical approach to the concept of irrationality, as he attributes the following to irrational
Proof that π is irrational enough and that the sequence of all "g" converges to 0. But a sequence of numbers greater than or equal to |"y"| cannot converge to 0. Since "f"(/4) = cos(/2) = 0, it follows from claim 3 that /16 is irrational and therefore that is irrational. On the other hand, since another consequence of Claim 3 is that, if "x" ∈ Q \ {0}, then tan "x" is irrational. Laczkovich's proof is really about the hypergeometric function. In fact, "f"("x") = "F"(k; −"x") and Gauss found a continued fraction expansion of the hypergeometric function using its functional equation. This allowed