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This was already conjectured by Aristotle, when he claimed that diameter and circumference of a circle are not commensurable. The first proof of this fundamental fact was given by Johann Heinrich Lambert in 1766.
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Aigner, M., Ziegler, G.M. (2018). Some irrational numbers. In: Proofs from THE BOOK. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-57265-8_8
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