The Irrationals: A Story of the Numbers You Can't Count On Nature_Gift_Guide Spanning sixty-four years-from his early

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The Irrationals: A Story of the Numbers You Can't Count On Nature_Gift_Guide Spanning sixty-four years-from his earlyAn 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