Displaying 1 of 1 2003 Format: Book Author: Mazur, Barry. Title: Imagining numbers : (particularly the square root of minus fifteen) / Barry Mazur. Edition: 1st ed. Publisher, Date: New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2003. Description: xvi, 270 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm Summary: A tour of the creative side of mathematics describes the first use of imaginary numbers in sixteenth-century Italy and the subsequent two-hundred-year effort to perfect the process, citing the words of key Renaissance thinkers. Subjects: Numbers, Complex. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-258) and index. Contents: The imagination and square roots -- Square roots and the imagination -- Looking at numbers -- Permission and laws -- Economy of expression -- Justifying laws -- Bombelli's puzzle -- Stretching the image -- Putting geometry into numbers -- Seeing the geometry in the numbers -- The literature of discovery of geometry in numbers -- Understanding algebra via geometry. Web Site: Contributor biographical information Publisher description LCCN: 2002075402 ISBN: 0312421877 9780312421878 0312421877 9780312421878 Other Number: 49959463 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 591663 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: 512.788 Mazur Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
