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Rational, Irrational and Transcendental Numbers
Rational, Irrational and Transcendental Numbers
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Length:
22 minutes
Released:
Aug 24, 2022
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Podcast episode
Description
Joseph Bennish returns to take us beyond the rational numbers we usually use to numbers that have been given names that indicate they're crazy or other-worldly. The Greeks were shocked to discover irrational numbers, violating their geometric view of the world. But later it was proved that any irrational number can be approximated remarkably well by a relatively simple fraction. The transcendental numbers were even more mysterious and were not even proved to exist until the 19th century.
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Released:
Aug 24, 2022
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