TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mazur,Barry
TI  - Imagining numbers: (particularly the square root of minus fifteen) 
SN  - 0374174695 : HRD
AV  - QA255 .M39 2003
U1  - 512 21
PY  - 2003///
CY  - New York
PB  - Farrar Straus Giroux
KW  - Numbers, Complex
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-258) and index
N2  - 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
ER  -