Algebra Archive

The Rational Numbers — Natural Numbers, Whole Numbers, and Integers

The numbers that we use for counting are called the natural numbers. These are the first numbers that were invented, and are so named because they are a natural experience of reality: if you see apples on the ground, whatever […]

A Brief History of Numbers

Mathematics is often called the language of science because, at its foundation, science is the quantization of reality — of the Universe and of Nature — into fundamental laws that describe numerical quantities and relationships of the behavior and phenomena […]