In this work we present the main numerical sets: natural, integers, rational, irrational and real, focusing on the set of irrational numbers. We approach its historical part, the most famous examples and the proof of their ...

Faced with the current scenario of education, where the teaching of mathematics takes place, each day more, in a mechanical way and far from critical thinking, the present work approaches a proposal for the use of the ...

The value of the circumference s length divided by its diameter has a result a constant named PI; This value is known since ancient times by the Greeks and Egyptians, but only in current history this constant has been ...

Irrational and transcendental numbers intrigued mathematicians since the beginning of mathematical development. Proving the irrationality or transcendence of a number can be a subject very complicated, however this is a ...

In this work we carry out a study on the history and concepts of development of the decimal representation of real numbers, which probably started with works by Simon Stevin in La Theinde (The tenth) in 1585 (STEVIN, 1997), ...