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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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Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003
ISBN 10: 0374174695
ISBN 13: 9780374174699
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Imagining Numbers: (particularly the square root of minus fifteen)
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003
ISBN 10: 0374174695
ISBN 13: 9780374174699
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Imagining Numbers: (particularly the square root of minus fifteen)
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux (edition ), 2003
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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Imagining Numbers: Particularly the Square Root of Minus Fifteen
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Hardback. Condition: Good. Barry Mazur invites lovers of poetry to make a leap into mathematics. Through discussions of the role of the imagination and imagery in both poetry and mathematics, Mazur reviews the writings of the early mathematical explorers and reveals the early bafflement of these Renaissance thinkers faced with imaginary numbers. Then he shows us, step-by-step, how to begin imagining these strange mathematical objects ourselves. Seller Inventory # CIN0374174695G
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Imagining Numbers: (particularly the square root of minus fifteen)
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ISBN 10: 0374174695
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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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Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003
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Imagining Numbers: (particularly the square root of minus fifteen)
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003
ISBN 10: 0374174695
ISBN 13: 9780374174699
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