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A Story of the Numbers You Can't Count On
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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 mat

Author Biography:

Julian Havil is the author of Gamma: Exploring Euler's Constant, Nonplussed!: Mathematical Proof of Implausible Ideas, Impossible?: Surprising Solutions to Counterintuitive Conundrums, and John Napier: Life, Logarithms, and Legacy (all Princeton). He is a retired former master at Winchester College, England, where he taught mathematics for more than three decades.
Release date NZ
September 22nd, 2014
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Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Country of Publication
United States
Illustrations
100 line illus.
Imprint
Princeton University Press
Pages
312
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Dimensions
152x229x21
ISBN-13
9780691163536
Product ID
22332613

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