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ZIN Product Number: 10193750
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 Format: Hardcover, 257 pages
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691027951
Release Date: Jan 5, 1997
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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, re-creating the baffling mathematical problems that conjured it up and the colorful characters who tried to solve them. Addressing readers with both a general and scholarly interest in mathematics, Nahin weaves into this narrative entertaining historical facts, mathematical discussions, and the application of complex numbers and functions to important problems.
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The 2,000-year-old history of a famous imaginary number
| |  | | | | List of Illustrations | | | Preface | | | Introduction | 3 | | Ch. 1 | The Puzzles of Imaginary Numbers | 8 | | Ch. 2 | A First Try at Understanding the Geometry of [the square root of] -1 | 31 | | Ch. 3 | The Puzzles Start to Clear | 48 | | Ch. 4 | Using Complex Numbers | 84 | | Ch. 5 | More Uses of Complex Numbers | 105 | | Ch. 6 | Wizard Mathematics | 142 | | Ch. 7 | The Nineteenth Century, Cauchy, and the Beginning of Complex Function Theory | 187 | | App. A | The Fundamental Theorem of Algebra | 227 | | App. B | The Complex Roots of a Transcendental Equation | 230 | | App. C | ([the square root of] -1)[superscript [square root of] -1] to 135 Decimal Places, and How It Was Computed | 235 | | Notes | 239 | | Name Index | 251 | | Subject Index | 255 | | Acknowledgments | 259 |
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Numbers, Complex, Numbers, Complex, Numbers, Complex, Theory Of Numbers, Mathematics, History & Philosophy, Mathematical Analysis, Number Theory
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