Imagining Numbers
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Short description: Book by Barry Mazur
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| Author | Barry Mazur |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Publication date | January 1, 2003 |
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| Pages | 270 pp. |
| ISBN | ISBN:978-0374174699 |
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 by an attempt to
- re-create, in ourselves, the shift of mathematical thought that makes it possible to imagine these numbers.[2]
The book was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
References
- ↑ "Imagining Numbers by Barry Mazur". goodreads.com. http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/308604.Imagining_Numbers?from_search=true. Retrieved 2014-12-30.
- ↑ Heawood, Jonathan (18 May 2003). "Observer review: Imagining Numbers by Barry Mazur". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/may/18/scienceandnature.features. Retrieved 2020-08-17.
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