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Eucl.i. 47, ἡ την ορθην γωνιαν ὑποτεινουσα πλευρα {hê tên orthên gônian hypoteinousa pleura}, 'the side subtending the right angle', which accounts for the feminine participial form ὑποτεινουσα {hypoteinousa},
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The law of formation for such numbers is first found in Eucl.
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Theodorus's proof was evidently not general; and it was reserved for Theaetetus to comprehend all these irrationals in one definition, and to prove the property generally as it is proved in Eucl.
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The most famous proposition attributed to Pythagoras himself is of course the theorem of Eucl.
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The method of exhaustion used, for the purpose of proof by _reductio ad absurdum_, the lemma proved in Eucl.
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Plutarch mentions a doubt whether it was this problem or the theorem of Eucl.
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The method of exhaustion is seen in operation in Eucl.
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Elements; and he was the first to prove the important theorem of Eucl.
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The law depends on the proposition proved in Eucl.
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Treatise ', which apparently dealt with the fundamental assumptions, &c., of elementary geometry; (8) a work on _unordered irrationals_, i.e. irrationals of more complicated form than those of Eucl.
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