[PDF.87rx] The Irrationals: A Story of the Numbers You Can't Count On

The Irrationals: A Story of the Numbers You Can't Count On

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 | #478866 in Books |  2012-07-22 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.40 x1.02 x6.41l,1.29 | File type: PDF | 312 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Wickedly clever!|By Robert Johnston|I read this book on the recommendation of a mathematician friend after our many philosophical debates. I'm a physiker and cranky to boot. At the very edge of our understanding, there exists a mysterious set of constants. They have been increasingly observed in nature, socialized as precise with one additional decimal place as better instrumen| |"The insides of this book are as clever and compelling as the subtitle on the cover. Havil, a retired former master at Winchester College in England, where he taught math for decades, takes readers on a history of irrational numbers--numbers, like v2 or p, who

The ancient Greeks discovered them, but it wasn't until the nineteenth century that irrational numbers were properly understood and rigorously defined, and even today not all their mysteries have been revealed. In The Irrationals, the first popular and comprehensive book on the subject, Julian Havil tells the story of irrational numbers and the mathematicians who have tackled their challenges, from antiquity to the twenty-first century. Along the way, he explai...

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