An Imaginary Tale: The Story of the Square Root of Minus One by Paul J. Nahin

An Imaginary Tale: The Story of the Square Root of Minus One

Paul J. Nahin

nonfiction history mathematics science informative slow-paced

267 pages | first published 1998

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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 charac...
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