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This chapter will explore the origins and development of the system of real numbers. These numbers form the most central structure in all of Mathematics. Like other structures it arises from more primitive human activities—in this case, from the measurement and comparison of magnitudes of various kinds.
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Mac Lane, S. (1986). Real Numbers. In: Mathematics Form and Function. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4872-9_5
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