Acknowledgments | p. ix |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Greek Beginnings | p. 9 |
The Route to Germany | p. 52 |
Two New Irrationals | p. 92 |
Irrationals, Old and New | p. 109 |
A Very Special Irrational | p. 137 |
From the Rational to the Transcendental | p. 154 |
Transcendentals | p. 182 |
Continued Fractions Revisited | p. 211 |
The Question and Problem of Randomness | p. 225 |
One Question, Three Answers | p. 235 |
Does Irrationality Matter? | p. 252 |
The Spiral of Theodoras | p. 272 |
Rational Parameterizations of the Circle | p. 278 |
Two Properties of Continued Fractions | p. 281 |
Finding the Tomb of Roger Apery | p. 286 |
Equivalence Relations | p. 289 |
The Mean Value Theorem | p. 294 |
Index | p. 295 |
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