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Chapter 1: Real Number
Today’s
Lessons for
Learning
Classify real numbers.
History of numbers
Mathematics was originated from the process of expressing
quantity by symbols as numbers. According Greek Philosopher
Aristotle, formal beginning of mathematics started with its
practice among ancient Egyptian priests. So it can be said that
number based Mathematics was created about two thousand
years before the birth of Jesus Christ.
Indian mathematicians introduced first the concept of 0 and
decimal number system. Later on Indian and Chinese
mathematicians expanded the concepts of negative, real,
integer and fractional numbers. Muslim mathematicians of the
Middle East are given the credit of expressing numbers by
decimal fractions. Again they first, introduced irrational
numbers in the form of square roots for solution of quadratic
algebraic equations in the 11th century. Historians think that
C l a s s i fi c a t i o n o f n u m b e r s
Natural Number,
Integer,
Rational Number,
Real number,