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Ask HN: Essay on naturals, rationals, irrationals, algebraics

1 points by davyjones 11 years ago · 0 comments · 1 min read


A while ago, I chanced upon a light mathematical essay that made the case that algebraics were the next 'logical' step after irrational numbers.

As I remember it, it built up steadily from natural numbers to rational to irrational to algebraics using equations.

Sadly I lost the link. If anyone remembers reading something like this and has a link, I would appreciate it very much.

Thanks!

ps. This was a mathematician(?)'s personal site. There were others essays on Maths too.

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