Imaginary Tale
by Paul J. Nahin
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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, re-creating the baffling mathematical problems that conjured it up and the colorful characters who tried to solve them.
Addressing readers with both a general and scholarly interest in mathematics, Nahin weaves into this narrative entertaining historical facts, mathematical discussions, and the application of complex numbers and functions to important problems.
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An Imaginary Tale The Story Of The Square Root Of Minus One
2010, Princeton University Press
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Imaginary Tale: The Story Of √-1
2010, Princeton University Press
in English
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Imaginary Tale, an: the Story of I [the Square Root of Minus One]
2009, Princeton University Press
in English
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An imaginary tale: the story of [the square root of minus one]
2007, Princeton University Press
in English
0691127980 9780691127989
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An Imaginary Tale: The Story of "i" [the square root of minus one]
January 15, 2007, Princeton University Press
Paperback
in English
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0691127980 9780691127989
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An imaginary tale: the story of [the square root of minus one]
1998, Princeton University Press
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0691027951 9780691027951
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"At the end of his 1494 book Summa de Arithmetical, Geometria, Proportioni et Proportionalita, summarizing all the knowledge of that time on arithmetic, algebra (including quadratic equations), and trigonometry, the Franciscan friar Luca Pacioli (circa 1445-1514) made a bold assertion."
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