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An imaginary tale : the story of [the square root of minus one] / Paul J. Nahin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nahin, Paul J.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Numbers, Complex.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 257 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Other Title:
- Story of [the square root of minus one]
- Story of [square root] -1
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1998]
- Summary:
- In "An Imaginary Tale", Paul J. Nahin tells the 2,000-year-old history of one of mathematics most elusive numbers, the square root of minus one, re-creating the baffling mathematical problems that conjured it up and the colorful characters who tried to solve them. 47 line illustrations.1 halftone.
- Notes:
- On t.p. "[the square root of minus one]" appears as a radical over "-1".
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0691027951
- OCLC:
- 38147840
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