Abstract

This paper is the fifth part of the publication ``Selected chapters from algebra'', the first four having been published in previous issues of the Teaching of Mathematics, Vol\. I (1998), 1--22, Vol\. II, 1 (1999), 1--30, Vol\. II, 2 (1999), 65--80, Vol\. III, 1 (2000), 15--40, and Vol\. III, 2 (2000), 63--82.

Keywords: Real numbers, limits, infinite sums, decimal representations, real roots of polynomials, Sturm's theorem.

Pages:  1$-$34     

Volume  IV ,  Issue  1 ,  2001