#irrationalnumbers — Public Fediverse posts
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Decades-Long Quest for the Irrational: A Breakthrough in Number Theory
In a stunning revelation, mathematicians have expanded upon Roger Apéry's groundbreaking proof of the irrationality of ζ(3), paving the way for a new era in number theory. This innovative approach not...
https://news.lavx.hu/article/decades-long-quest-for-the-irrational-a-breakthrough-in-number-theory
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“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
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1/5: "Man, I was trying to reason with pi the other day. Cloud't do it."
1/2: "Oh, you can't reason with pi."
1/5: "How come?"
1/2: "Pi is irrational."
#math #MathJoke #IrrationalNumbers #RationalNumbers #dadjoke #joke
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Why π^π^π^π could be an #integer (for all we know!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdHFLfv-ThQ&ab_channel=Stand-upMaths
#Pi #Maths #Math #Mathematics #Algebra #Fractions #IrrationalNumbers #TranscendentalNumbers #Computing #LargeNumbers #Computation #ComputingPower
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A lovely post on Dirichlet’s approximation theorem, which allows you to approximate irrational number with rational numbers with small denominators with guarantees on how close the irrational number is the approximation.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-rational-math-catches-slippery-irrational-numbers-20200310/
#Mathematics #Numbers #RationalNumbers #IrrationalNumbers #NumericalApproximations