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"A poetic and profound meditation on the mathematical imagination." --"The Christian Science Monitor"
"[A] quizzing, quizzical little book...The window which Mazur cuts into the world of imaginary numbers is just as exciting, and almost as provocative, as anything in Phillip Pullman." --"The Observer" (London)
"Through anecdotes, poetry, and philosophy, Mazur...makes a delightful case for the pleasures of abstract thought."--"New Scientist"
"This absorbing and in itself most imaginative book lies in the grand tradition of explanations of what mathematical imagination is...and will appeal particularly to lovers of literature."--John Hollander
"Barry Mazur's "Imagining Numbers" is quite literally a charming book; it has brought even me, in a dazed state, to the brink of mathematical play." --Richard Wilbur, author of "Mayflies: New Poems and Translations"
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"[A] quizzing, quizzical little book...The window which Mazur cuts into the world of imaginary numbers is just as exciting, and almost as provocative, as anything in Phillip Pullman." --"The Observer" (London)
"Through anecdotes, poetry, and philosophy, Mazur...makes a delightful case for the pleasures of abstract thought."--"New Scientist"
"This absorbing and in itself most imaginative book lies in the grand tradition of explanations of what mathematical imagination is...and will appeal particularly to lovers of literature."--John Hollander
"Barry Mazur's "Imagining Numbers" is quite literally a charming book; it has brought even me, in a dazed state, to the brink of mathematical play." --Richard Wilbur, author of "Mayflies: New Poems and Translations"
A poetic and profound meditation on the mathematical imagination. "The Christian Science Monitor"
[A] quizzing, quizzical little book...The window which Mazur cuts into the world of imaginary numbers is just as exciting, and almost as provocative, as anything in Phillip Pullman. "The Observer (London)"
Through anecdotes, poetry, and philosophy, Mazur...makes a delightful case for the pleasures of abstract thought. "New Scientist"
This absorbing and in itself most imaginative book lies in the grand tradition of explanations of what mathematical imagination is...and will appeal particularly to lovers of literature. "John Hollander"
Barry Mazur's "Imagining Numbers" is quite literally a charming book; it has brought even me, in a dazed state, to the brink of mathematical play. "Richard Wilbur, author of Mayflies: New Poems and Translations""
"A poetic and profound meditation on the mathematical imagination." --The Christian Science Monitor
"[A] quizzing, quizzical little book...The window which Mazur cuts into the world of imaginary numbers is just as exciting, and almost as provocative, as anything in Phillip Pullman." --The Observer (London)
"Through anecdotes, poetry, and philosophy, Mazur...makes a delightful case for the pleasures of abstract thought." --New Scientist
"This absorbing and in itself most imaginative book lies in the grand tradition of explanations of what mathematical imagination is...and will appeal particularly to lovers of literature." --John Hollander
"Barry Mazur's Imagining Numbers is quite literally a charming book; it has brought even me, in a dazed state, to the brink of mathematical play." --Richard Wilbur, author of Mayflies: New Poems and Translations
This is a book about the imagination in general and about the mathematical imagination in particular. Barry Mazur considers the range of our imaginative experiences. When we read a line of poetry - "The yellow of the tulip" - what is it we experience in the mind's eye? And when we imagine a number, in particular an impossible number such as the square root of a negative quantity, what imaginative object might this bring to mind?
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- PublisherAllen Lane
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0713996307
- ISBN 13 9780713996302
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