Imagining Numbers
Book by Barry Mazur / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Imagining Numbers: (particularly the square root of minus fifteen) is a 2003 popular mathematics book by mathematician Barry Mazur[1] The aim of the book is not a history of imaginary numbers but an attempt to
- re-create, in ourselves, the shift of mathematical thought that makes it possible to imagine these numbers.[2]
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Author | Barry Mazur |
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Language | English |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Publication date | January 1, 2003 |
Publication place | United States |
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Pages | 270 pp. |
ISBN | 978-0374174699 |
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The book was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.