Imagining numbers : (particularly the square root of minus fifteen) / Barry Mazur.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2003.Edition: 1st edDescription: xvi, 270 p. : ill. ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 0374174695 : HRD
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 512 21
LOC classification:
  • QA255 .M39 2003
Summary: 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.
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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.

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