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An Imaginary Tale

Paperback • 2016 • 1. edition

An Imaginary Tale

By Paul J. Nahin

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About the book

Today complex numbers have such widespread practical use--from electrical engineering to aeronautics--that few people would expect the story behind their derivation to be filled with adventure and enigma. 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. He recreates the baffling mathematical problems that conjured it up, and the colorful characters who tried to solve them. In 1878, when tw...Show more

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ISBN

9780691169248

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published year

2016

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1

Original title

An Imaginary Tale

Format

Paperback

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