Title: An imaginary tale
Subtitle: the story of [the square root of minus one]
First published: 1998
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.
Subjects: Complex Numbers, Mathematics, Números complexos (geometria), Numbers, complex
LC classification: QA255 .N34 1998