3 results for 'Julian Havil'

In Nonplussed!, popular-math writer Julian Havil delighted readers with a mind-boggling array of implausible yet true mathematical paradoxes. Now Havil is back with Impossible?, another marvelous...

An entertaining and enlightening history of irrational numbers, from ancient Greece to the twenty-first century.The ancient Greeks discovered them, but it wasn't until the nineteenth century...

Among the many constants that appear in mathematics, ?, e, and i are the most familiar. Following closely behind is ?,, or gamma, a constant that arises in many mathematical areas yet maintains a...