An Imaginary Tale
Subtitle: The Story of "i" [the square root of minus one]
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: January 15, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780691127989
Subjects: History of mathematics; Popular science; Mathematics; Science/Mathematics; Calculus; History & Philosophy; Mathematical Analysis; History of Science and Medicine, Philosophy of Science; Mathematics / History
First sentence: At the end of his 1494 book Summa de Arithmetical, Geometria, Proportioni et Proportionalita, summarizing all the knowledge of that time on arithmetic, algebra (including quadratic equations), and trigonometry, the Franciscan friar Luca Pacioli (circa 1445-1514) made a bold assertion.