Beschreibung
Barry Mazur invites lovers of poetry to make a leap into mathematics. Through discussions of the role of the imagination and imagery in both poetry and mathematics, Mazur reviews the writings of the early mathematical explorers and reveals the early bafflement of these Renaissance thinkers faced with imaginary numbers. Then he shows us, step-by-step, how to begin imagining these strange mathematical objects ourselves.
Buchdetails
Format
Kindle
Seiten
290 Seiten
Sprache
Englisch
Veröffentlicht
Feb 1, 2004
Verlag
Farrar, Straus and Giroux