The Story of √-1: An Imaginary Tale
by Pal J. Nahin
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Today complex numbers have such widespread practical use--from electrical engineering to aeronautics--that few people would expect the story behind their derivation to be filled with adventure and enigma. In An Imaginary Tale, Paul Nahin tells the 2000-year-old history of one of mathematics' most elusive numbers, the square root of minus one, also known as i. He recreates the baffling mathematical problems that conjured it up, and the colorful characters who tried to solve them.
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- Title
- The Story of √-1
- Author
- Pal J. Nahin
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0691027951
- ISBN 13
- 9780691027951
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Place of Publication
- Princeton, Nj
- This edition first published
- 1998
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