रञ्जित (Ranjit Mathew)Jun 22, 2024

“How The Square Root Of 2 Became A Number”, Quanta (https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-square-root-of-2-became-a-number-20240621/).

On HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40750230

#Numbers #IrrationalNumbers #Mathematics #Maths #PythagorasTheorem #Dedekind #Cantor #History #Reals #Irrationals

How the Square Root of 2 Became a Number | Quanta Magazine

Useful mathematical concepts, like the number line, can linger for millennia before they are rigorously defined.

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Marco van Burgsteden 🍋Jul 24, 2023
Choosing a symbol for an arbitrary metric space #x for #twitter is a bit flattering. The J symbol would have been more appropriate. #irrationals