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An imaginary tale: the story of [the square root of] -1
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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Princeton Univ. Press
2006
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| Acceso en línea: | http://cds.cern.ch/record/1140515 |