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Author: Barry MazurEdition: 1
Publisher: Farrar Straus & GirouxEdition Description: Illustrated
ISBN-10: 0374174695Subject: Business & Economics
ISBN-13: 9780374174699Topic: --
Format: HardcoverLanguage: --
Publication Year: 2003Condition: Good
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IMAGINING NUMBERS (PARTICULARLY THE SQUARE ROOT OF MINUS FIFTEEN) is Barry Mazur's invitation to those who take delight in the imaginative work of reading poetry but may have not background in math, to make a leap of the imagination in mathematics. Imaginary numbers entered into mathematics in sixteenth-century Italy and were used with immediate success, but nevertheless presented an intriguing challenge to the imagination. It took more than two hundred years for mathematicians to discover a satisfactory way of "imagining" these numbers.
With discussion about how we comprehend ideas both in poetry and in mathematics, Mazur reviews some of the writing of the earliest explorers of these elusive figures, such as Rafael Bombelli, an engineer who spent most of his life draining the swamps of Tuscany and who in his spare moments composed his great treatise, "L'Algebra." Mazur encourages his readers to share the early bafflement of these Renaissance thinkers. Then he show us, step by step, how to begin imagining, ourselves, imaginary numbers.


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Imagining Numbers: (particularly the square root of minus fifteen)

Barry Mazur

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Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Good
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ISBN: 0374174695
Publication Date: 2003
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 270
Height: 0.9100 inches
Width: 5.3400 inches
Weight: 0.8000 pounds

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