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Imagining Numbers

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Imagining Numbers
Hardcover edition
AuthorBarry Mazur
LanguageEnglish
PublisherFarrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date
January 1, 2003
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint
Pages270 pp.
ISBN978-0374174699

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.

References

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  1. ^ "Imagining Numbers by Barry Mazur". goodreads.com. Retrieved 2014-12-30.
  2. ^ Heawood, Jonathan (18 May 2003). "Observer review: Imagining Numbers by Barry Mazur". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 2020-08-17 – via www.theguardian.com.