An imaginary tale
Subtitle: the story of [the square root of minus one]
By: Paul J. Nahin.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
Subjects: Numbers, Complex
Other titles: Story of [the square root of minus one]; Story of [square root] -1
Description: In An Imaginary Tale, Paul Nahin tells the 2000-year-old history of one of mathematics' most elusive numbers, the square root of minus one, also known as i, re-creating the baffling mathematical problems that conjured it up and the colorful characters who tried to solve them.

Addressing readers with both a general and scholarly interest in mathematics, Nahin weaves into this narrative entertaining historical facts, mathematical discussions, and the application of complex numbers and functions to important problems.
Notes: On t.p. "[the square root of minus one]" appears as a radical over "-1".
Includes indexes.