Imagining Numbers
Subtitle: (particularly the square root of minus fifteen)
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: December 11, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780374174699
First sentence: the yellow of the tulip we form, perhaps, the image of it in our mind's eye and experience whatever emotional effect that image produces within us. But, says Scarry, we have no felt experience of coming to form that image.