Imagining Numbers

Book by Barry Mazur
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 but 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

  1. ^ "Imagining Numbers by Barry Mazur". goodreads.com. Retrieved 2014-12-30.
  2. ^ Heawood, Jonathan (18 May 2003). "Observer review: Imagining Numbers by Barry Mazur". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 2020-08-17 – via www.theguardian.com.


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