An edition of An imaginary tale (1998)
An imaginary tale
the story of [the square root of minus one]
By Paul J. Nahin
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Publish Date
1998
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Language
eng
Pages
267
Description:
In An Imaginary Tale, Paul Nahin tells the 2000-year-old history of one of mathematics' most elusive numbers, the square root of minus one, also known as i, re-creating the baffling mathematical problems that conjured it up and the colorful characters who tried to solve them. Addressing readers with both a general and scholarly interest in mathematics, Nahin weaves into this narrative entertaining historical facts, mathematical discussions, and the application of complex numbers and functions to important problems.