The Irrationals: - A Story Of The Numbers You Can...

—from their discovery in ancient Greece to modern 21st-century mysteries.

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, written by Julian Havil and published by Princeton University Press , is a comprehensive historical and mathematical exploration of numbers that cannot be expressed as simple fractions. The book tracks the evolution of these numbers—such as 2the square root of 2 end-root —from their discovery in ancient Greece to modern