The ancient Greeks wanted to believe that the universe could be described in its entirety using only whole numbers and the ratios between them — fractions, or what we now call rational numbers. But ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We present data from a two-year teaching experiment involving 8- and 9-year-old children. The purpose of the teaching experiment was to ...

What is the most bizarre real number that you can imagine? Probably many people think of an irrational number such as pi (π) or Euler’s number. And indeed, such values can be considered “wild.” After ...