Re: factoring using geomerty?

From: Douglas A. Gwyn (DAGwyn_at_null.net)
Date: 09/29/03 

Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 16:12:06 GMT

pleyland@microsoft.com wrote:
> "sqrt\(i\)" <com.com@com> writes:
> > does anyone know if a method using geometry has been used, or could be
> > developed to factor numbers into their primes factors?
> > Does anyone have an idea where to start? and what kind of geometry will be
> > most useful to the purpose of factoring?
> It most certainly has. I suggest that a good place to start is
> Euclid's Elements.
> The ancient Greeks described virtually all their mathematics in terms
> of geometry. ...

On the other hand, great advances in mathematical knowledge became
possible only after the algebraization of mathematics.

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