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Imagining Numbers: (Particularly the Square Root of Minus Fifteen)

Imagining Numbers: (Particularly the Square Root of Minus Fifteen) - Paperback

by Barry Mazur
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Availability:In StockContributor:Barry MazurPublish date:2004-02-01Pages:288
Language:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9780312421878ISBN-10:312421877UPC:9780312421878Book Category:PoetrySize:5.50 x 8.40 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SC6WQSZ719

Barry Mazur invites lovers of poetry to make a leap into mathematics. Through discussions of the role of the imagination and imagery in both poetry and mathematics, Mazur reviews the writings of the early mathematical explorers and reveals the early bafflement of these Renaissance thinkers faced with imaginary numbers. Then he shows us, step-by-step, how to begin imagining these strange mathematical objects ourselves.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9780312421878ISBN-10:312421877UPC:9780312421878Book Category:PoetrySize:5.50 x 8.40 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SC6WQSZ719

Barry Mazur does his mathematics at Harvard University and lives in Cambridge, Massachussetts, with the writer Grace Dane Mazur.


Publisher: Picador USA

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