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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. Nahin weaves into this narrative entertaining historical facts and mathematical discussions, including the application of complex numbers and functions to important problems, such as Kepler's laws of planetary motion and ac electrical circuits. This book can be read as an engaging history, almost a biography, of one of the most evasive and pervasive "numbers" in all of mathematics.

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Book category Books in English Mathematics & science Science: general issues Popular science

• Full title: Imaginary Tale
• Author: Paul J. Nahin
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 296
• EAN: 9780691169248
• ISBN: 9780691169248
• ID: 02794352
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Weight: 378 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 139 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. March 2016

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