Imagining Numbers
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 Hardcover edition | |
| Author | Barry Mazur |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Publication date | January 1, 2003 |
| Publication place | United States |
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| Pages | 270 pp. |
| ISBN | 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.
