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Mazur considers the range of our imaginative experiences, especially in relation to mathematics. When we imagine a number, in particular an impossible number such as the square root of a negative quantity, what imaginative object might this bring to mind?

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Allen Lane, Allen Lane/Penquin Books
Language
English
Pages
270

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Subjects
Mathematics, Philosophy, Imagination, Mathématiques, Philosophie, Mathematics, philosophy, Numbers, complex

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Imagining numbers (particularly the square root of minus fifteen)
2003, Allen Lane, Allen Lane/Penquin Books
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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London

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Dewey Decimal Class
510.1
Library of Congress
QA255 .M39 2003, QA8

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvi, 270 pages
Number of pages
270

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL39213035M
Internet Archive
imaginingnumbers0000mazu_t2d5
ISBN 10
0713996307
ISBN 13
9780713996302
OCLC/WorldCat
51271542

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