Imagining Numbers

Imagining Numbers
	Hardcover edition
Author	Barry Mazur
Language	English
Publisher	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date	January 1, 2003
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print
Pages	270 pp.
ISBN	978-0374174699

Imagining Numbers: (particularly the square root of minus fifteen) is a 2003 popular mathematics book by mathematician Barry Mazur.^[1] The aim of the book is not a history of imaginary numbers, but an attempt to:

re-create, in ourselves, the shift of mathematical thought that makes it possible to imagine these numbers.^[2]

The book was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

References

^ Imagining Numbers by Barry Mazur. goodreads.com. ISBN 978-0-14-100887-5. Retrieved 2014-12-30.
^ Heawood, Jonathan (18 May 2003). "Observer review: Imagining Numbers by Barry Mazur". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 2020-08-17 – via www.theguardian.com.

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[1] Imagining Numbers by Barry Mazur. goodreads.com. ISBN 978-0-14-100887-5. Retrieved 2014-12-30.

[2] Heawood, Jonathan (18 May 2003). "Observer review: Imagining Numbers by Barry Mazur". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 2020-08-17 – via www.theguardian.com.

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