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The Irrationals: A Story of the Numbers You Can't Count On by Julian Havil

The Irrationals: A Story of the Numbers You Can't Count On

Julian Havil

320 pages first pub 2012 (view editions)

nonfiction history mathematics
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An entertaining and enlightening history of irrational numbers, from ancient Greece to the twenty-first centuryThe ancient Greeks discovered them, but it wasn't until the nineteenth century that irrational numbers were properly understood and rigo...

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