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THE IRRATIONALS - JULIAN HAVIL KARTONIERT (TB)

An entertaining and enlightening history of irrational numbers  from ancient Greece to the
twenty-first century 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 explains why irrational numbers are surprisingly difficult to define-and why
so many questions still surround them. Fascinating and illuminating  this is a book for
everyone who loves math and the history behind it.

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