Imagining numbers : (particularly the square root of minus fifteen) /
Mazur, Barry.
Imagining numbers : (particularly the square root of minus fifteen) / Barry Mazur. - 1st ed. - New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2003. - xvi, 270 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-258) and index.
A tour of the creative side of mathematics describes the first use of imaginary numbers in sixteenth-century Italy and the subsequent two-hundred-year effort to perfect the process, citing the words of key Renaissance thinkers.
0374174695 : HRD $22.00
Farrar Straus & Giroux, C/O Vhps Holtzbrinck Pub 16365 James Madison Hwy, Gordonsville, VA, USA, 22942, (540)6727600 SAN 631-5011
2002075402
Numbers, Complex.
QA255 / .M39 2003
512
Imagining numbers : (particularly the square root of minus fifteen) / Barry Mazur. - 1st ed. - New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2003. - xvi, 270 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-258) and index.
A tour of the creative side of mathematics describes the first use of imaginary numbers in sixteenth-century Italy and the subsequent two-hundred-year effort to perfect the process, citing the words of key Renaissance thinkers.
0374174695 : HRD $22.00
Farrar Straus & Giroux, C/O Vhps Holtzbrinck Pub 16365 James Madison Hwy, Gordonsville, VA, USA, 22942, (540)6727600 SAN 631-5011
2002075402
Numbers, Complex.
QA255 / .M39 2003
512