Arithmetic and Weaving in Antiquity
A pebble proof of the incommensurability of in the square
By Ellen Harlizius-Klück

 
 
 

This is an image from an ancient plate showing a warp-weighted loom with a patterned weave. Note the square-in-a-square motif that will be at the centre of the following presentation.
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