Imagine winding the hour hand of a clock back from 3 o’clock to noon. Mathematicians have long known how to describe this rotation as a simple multiplication: A number representing the initial ...
Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 102, No. 3 (Mar., 1988), pp. 473-479 (7 pages) We present criteria for irrationality of limits of convergent sequences of rational numbers, ...