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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Barry Mazur |
ISBN: | 0374174695 9780374174699 0312421877 9780312421878 |
OCLC Number: | 49959463 |
Description: | xvi, 270 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm |
Contents: | The imagination and square roots -- Square roots and the imagination -- Looking at numbers -- Permission and laws -- Economy of expression -- Justifying laws -- Bombelli's puzzle -- Stretching the image -- Putting geometry into numbers -- Seeing the geometry in the numbers -- The literature of discovery of geometry in numbers -- Understanding algebra via geometry. |
Responsibility: | Barry Mazur. |
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Abstract:
A tour of the creative side of mathematics describes the first use of imaginary numbers in sixteenth-century Italy and the subsequent two-hundred-year effort to perfect the process, citing the words of key Renaissance thinkers.
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