Irrational Root 2!
In this video, we introduce and prove the "Carpets Theorem" and then utilize the theorem to prove that both the square root of two and the square root of three are irrational by a visual infinite descent argument.
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This animation is based on an argument from Stanley Tennebaum. If you are interested, I recommend this article from John Conway and Joseph Shipman about the irrationality of square root of two (and others):
http://dev.mccme.ru/~merzon/mirror/ma...
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