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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 Havil...
Autor principal: | Havil, Julian |
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Lenguaje: | eng |
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Princeton University Press
2012
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Acceso en línea: | http://cds.cern.ch/record/1539534 |
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