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

Paul J. Nahin

296 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction history mathematics science challenging informative mysterious slow-paced
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In 1878, when two brothers stole a mathematical papyrus from the ancient Egyptian burial site in the Valley of Kings, they led scholars to the earliest known occurrence of the square root of a negative number. The papyrus offered a specific numeri...

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