An Imaginary Tale : : The Story of √-1 / / Paul J. Nahin.
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' mo...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2010] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Edition: | With a New preface by the author |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Science Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (296 p.) :; 1 halftone. 47 line illus. |
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