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The Irrationals : A Story of the Numbers You Can't Count On /
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...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Greek beginnings
- The route to Germany
- Two new irrationals
- Irrationals, old and new
- A very special irrational
- From rational to the transcendental
- Transcendentals
- Continued fractions revisited
- The question and problem of randomness
- One question, three answers
- Does irrationality matter?