Imagining Numbers: (Particularly the Square Root of Minus Fifteen). This item is unavailable.
Language: English
Published by Allen Lane, 2003
- Hardcover
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- Title
- Imagining Numbers: (Particularly the Square Root of Minus Fifteen)
- Author
- Mazur, Barry
- Publisher
- Allen Lane
- Publication year
- 2003
- Condition
- Like New
- Binding
- hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0713996307
- ISBN 13
- 9780713996302
- Item weight
- 400 grams
This is a book about the imagination in general and about the mathematical imagination in particular.
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 with 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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