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

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

Julian Havil

320 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history mathematics
Powered by AI (Beta)
Loading...

Description

An entertaining and enlightening history of irrational numbers, from ancient Greece to the twenty-first centuryThe ancient Greeks discovered them, but it wasn't until the nineteenth century that irrational numbers were properly understood and rigo...

Read more

Community Reviews

Loading...

Content Warnings

Loading...