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Synopsis
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 works and writings of key Renaissance thinkers. 20,000 first printing.
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About the Author
Barry Mazur does his mathematics at Harvard University and lives in Cambridge, Massachussetts, with the writer Grace Dane Mazur.
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Imagining Numbers: (particularly the square root of minus fifteen)
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ISBN 10: 0374174695
ISBN 13: 9780374174699
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Imagining Numbers: (particularly the square root of minus fifteen)
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ISBN 10: 0374174695
ISBN 13: 9780374174699
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ISBN 10: 0374174695
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