Mazur, Barry. <br/><br/>
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. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-258) and index. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0374174695 : HRD  $22.00 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label> Farrar Straus & Giroux, C/O Vhps Holtzbrinck Pub 16365 James Madison Hwy, Gordonsville, VA, USA, 22942, (540)6727600 SAN 631-5011 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2002075402 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Numbers, Complex.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>QA255  / .M39 2003 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>512