Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...
The ancient scholar Hippasus of Metapontum was punished with death for his discovery of irrational numbers—or at least that’s the legend. What actually happened in the fifth century B.C.E. is far from ...
What is your favorite number? For many people, it may be an irrational number such as pi (Ï€), Euler's number (e) or the square root of 2. Even among the natural numbers (positive integers), there are ...
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