Exploring the real numbers / Frederick W. Stevenson.
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Upper Saddle River, N.J. :
Prentice Hall,
[2000]
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The Natural Numbers
- The Basics
- The Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic
- Searching for Primes
- Number Fascinations
- 2. The Integers
- Diophantine Equations
- Congruence Arithmetic
- Pell and Pythagoras
- Factoring Large Numbers
- 3. The Rational Numbers
- Rational Numbers as Decimals
- Decimals as Rational Numbers
- Continued Fractions
- Solving Equations on the Rational Plane
- 4. The Real Numbers
- Algebraic Representations
- Geometric Representations
- Analytic Representations
- Searching for Transcendental Numbers
- 5. Mathematical Projects
- Rings of Factors
- Sums of Consecutive Numbers
- Measuring Abundance
- Inside the Fibonacci Numbers
- Pictures at an Iteration
- Eenie Meenie Miney Mo
- Factoring with the Pollard