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Greek Number Theory - Math History - NJ Wildberger

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This lecture introduces ancient Greek number theory, covering prime and perfect numbers, Euclid’s theorem on unique prime factorization, the Euclidean algorithm, continued fractions, and Pell’s equation.

Syllabus

Introduction
Overview
Prime numbers
Euclids theorem
Factors
Perfect numbers
Primes
Euclidean algorithm

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