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Plato had a brilliant student called Theaetetus, who died in battle in 369 B.C. It was Theaetetus who showed that the square root of a natural number is irrational if and only if the natural number is not a square. Theaetetus was responsible for the material in Books X and XIII of Euclid’s Elements.

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Anglin, W.S. (1994). In the Time of Eudoxus. In: Mathematics: A Concise History and Philosophy. Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0875-4_12

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