Havil organizes the narrative into four primary areas of focus: The Irrationals: A Story of the Numbers You Can't Count On
—from their discovery in ancient Greece to modern 21st-century mysteries. The irrationals: a story of the numbers you can...
, 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 Havil organizes the narrative into four primary areas