The Square Root Of 2: A Dialogue Concerning A Number And A Sequence
by David Flannery /
2006 / English / PDF
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The square root of 2 is a fascinating number, if a little less famous than such mathematical stars as pi, the number e, the golden ratio, or the square root of 1. This book shows why v2 is an important number, and how, in puzzling out its special qualities, mathematicians gained insights into the illusive nature of irrational numbers.
