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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/872600124 Title: Imagining numbers : (particularly the square root of minus fifteen) Author: Barry Mazur Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013. ISBN/ISSN: 9781429931465 1429931469 OCLC:872600124

  
  

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Imagining numbers : (particularly the square root of minus fifteen)

Author:	Barry Mazur
Publisher:	New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013.
Edition/Format:	eBook : Document : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	How the elusive imaginary number was first imagined, and how to imagine it yourself Imagining Numbers (particularly the square root of minus fifteen) is Barry Mazur's invitation to those who take delight in the imaginative work of reading poetry, but may have no background in math, to make a leap of the imagination in mathematics. Imaginary numbers entered into mathematics in sixteenth-century Italy and were used with immediate success, but nevertheless presented an intriguing challenge to the imagination. It took more than two hundred years for mathematicians to discover a satisfactory way of "imagining" these numbers. With discussions about how we comprehend ideas both in poetry and in mathematics, Mazur reviews some of the writings of the earliest explorers of these elusive figures, such as Rafael Bombelli, an engineer who spent most of his life draining the swamps of Tuscany and who in his spare moments composed his great treatise "L'Algebra". Mazur encourages his readers to share the early bafflement of these Renaissance thinkers. Then he shows us, step by step, how to begin imagining, ourselves, imaginary numbers.  Read more...
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Subjects	Mathematics. MATHEMATICS -- General.
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