Origin of Irrational Numbers and Their Approximations

In this article a sincere effort has been made to address the origin of the incommensurability/irrationality of numbers. It is folklore that the starting point was several unsuccessful geometric attempts to compute the exact values of <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998...

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Main Authors: Ravi P. Agarwal, Hans Agarwal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-03-01
Series:Computation
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2079-3197/9/3/29