Description: Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Imagining Numbers Particularly Square Root of -15 by Mazur, Barry ISBN 9780141008875 / 0141008873 Penguin Books Ltd , 2004 Softcover 270 pages About the book; It sounds impossible, yet as this enchanting, quizzical and evocative book shows, the art of mathematical imagining is not as mysterious as it seems. Drawing on poetry, literature and philosophy, Barry Mazur shows how we can all make the leap of imagination in order to start visualizing the enigmatic 'imaginary numbers' that first baffled mathematicians in the 16th century, and are now seen as the Bedrock of the universe. Table of contents preface Part 1 The imagination and square roots Square roots and the imagination Looking at numbers Permission and laws Economy of expression Justifying laws Part 2 Bombelli's puzzle Stretching the image Putting geometry into numbers Seeing the geometry in the numbers Part 3 The literature of discovery of geometry in numbers Understanding algebra via geometry Appendix, the quadratic formula Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Index
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Date of Publication: 2004-03-25
Book Title: Imagining Numbers Particularly Square Root of -15
City of Publication: London
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Weight: 222.00 grams
Publication Year: 2003
Format: Paperback / softback
EAN: 9780141008875
ISBN: 0141008873
Language: English
Author: Mazur, Barry
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Genre: Mathematics
