Okay, then think of it from a strictly quantitative viewpoint. Euclid's proof of the irrationality of root two was known circa 300 BCE. Mathematicians would hav

Okay, then think of it from a strictly quantitative viewpoint. Euclid's proof of the irrationality of root two was known circa 300 BCE. Mathematicians would have to wait until 1670-ish for the math to be invented to understand the proof of the irrationality of pi. You can say it's obvious today to a high school calculus student, but the elapsed time between understanding of the two proofs is about two millennia.