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Imagining numbers

By Barry Mazur

Book information

Publisher
Picador
Year
2003
ISBN
9780312421878, 0312421877
Open Library ID
OL23055075M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
2 MB (2609947 bytes)
Series
particularly the square root of minus fifteen
Pages
275\275
Library
Kolxo3
DPI
600
Time added
2009-07-20 03:45:11
Математика;Теория чисел

Description

Barry Mazur invites lovers of poetry to make a leap into mathematics. Through discussions of the role of the imagination and imagery in both poetry and mathematics, Mazur reviews the writings of the early mathematical explorers and reveals the early bafflement of these Renaissance thinkers faced with imaginary numbers. Then he shows us, step-by-step, how to begin imagining these strange mathematical objects ourselves.

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