A Smoother Pebble
Subtitle: Mathematical Explorations (Mathematics)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Oxford University Press
Published: October 4, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780195144369
First sentence: POSITIVE WHOLE NUMBERS -the natural numbers-fill the fundamental human need for counting, but, additionally, a civilized society requires fractional numbers for orderly division of land and goods-artificial numbers that fill in the gaps between the natural numbers.