Greek number theory (a) | Math History | NJ Wildberger

The ancient Greeks studied squares, triangular numbers, primes and perfect numbers. Euclid stated the Fundamental theorem of Arithmetic: that a natural number could be factored into primes in essentially a unique way. We also discuss the Euclidean algorithm for finding a greatest common divisor, and the related theory of continued fractions. Finally we discuss Pell’s equation, arising in the famous Cattle-problem of Archimedes. ************************ Screenshot PDFs for my videos are available at the website . These give you a concise overview of the contents of the lectures for various Playlists: great for review, study and summary. My research papers can be found at my Research Gate page, at My blog is at , where I will discuss lots of foundational issues, along with other things. Online courses will be developed at . The first one, already underway is Algebra