Constructivisme
Made in
I wanted to represent “constructions” with a formula.
The displayed formula illustrates a mathematic formula with a simple proof that is not constructive. Precisely, the formula says that it exists two irrationals
and
such that
to the power of
is rational.
Proof: if $\sqrt{2}^\sqrt{2}$ is rational, just set both
and
to be equal to $\sqrt{2}$. Otherwise, set
to be $\sqrt{2}^\sqrt{2}$ and
to be $\sqrt{2}$, we then obtain that
to the power of
is equal to 2, so it is rational.
In the end, we proved the formula, but we do not know which
and
works.
