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267 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780691127989
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: Not specified
Description
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 charac...
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267 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780691127989
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: Not specified
Description
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 charac...