Imagining Numbers: (Particularly the Square Root of Minus Fifteen)Penguin UK, 25. mar. 2004 - 288 strani The book shows how the art of mathematical imagining is not as mysterious as it seems. Drawing on a variety of artistic resources the author reveals how anyone can begin to visualize the enigmatic 'imaginary numbers' that first baffled mathematicians in the 16th century. |
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... visualize multiplication in the complex plane? PART III Chapter 11 The Literature of Discovery of Geometry in Numbers 60. “These equations are of the same form as the equations for cosines, though they are things of quite a different ...
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PART I | |
Mathematical problems and square roots | |
What is a mathematical problem? | |
Square Roots and the Imagination 6 What is a square root? 7 What is a square root? | |
The quadratic formula | |
What kind of thing is the square root of a negative number? 10 Girolamo Cardano | |
Mental tortures | |
The inventors of writing | |
Arithmetic in the realm of imaginary numbers | |
The absence of time in mathematics | |
Questioning answers | |
Back to Bombellis puzzle | |
Interviewing Bombelli | |
Putting Geometry into Numbers 45 Many hands | |
Imagining the dynamics of multiplication by algebra and geometry mixed | |
Looking at Numbers 12 The problem of describing how we imagine | |
Noetic imaginary impossible | |
Seeing and squinting | |
Double negatives | |
Are tulips yellow? | |
Words things pictures | |
Real numbers and sophists | |
Forced conventions or definitions? | |
Charting the plane | |
The spareness of the inventory of the imagination | |
The distributive law and its momentum | |
Bombellis LAlgebra | |
Numbers as algorithms | |
The name of the unknown | |
Species and numbers | |
Stretching the Image 37 The elasticity of the number line | |
To imagine versus to picture | |
Writing and singing | |
The power of notation | |
A plane of numbers | |
Thinking silently out loud | |
The complex plane of numbers | |
Telling a straight story | |
Seeing the Geometry in the Numbers 53 Critical moments in the story of discovery | |
What are we doing when we identify one thing with another? | |
Song and story | |
So how can we visualize multiplication in the complex | |
A few remarks on the literature of discovery and | |
Understanding Algebra via Geometry | |
Form and content | |
The Quadratic Formula | |
Bibliography | |
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Imagining Numbers: (particularly the square root of minus fifteen) Barry Mazur Omejen predogled - 2004 |
Imagining Numbers: (particularly the Square Root of Minus Fifteen) Barry Mazur Omejen predogled - 2003 |
Imagining Numbers: (particularly the Square Root of Minus Fifteen) Barry Mazur Omejen predogled - 2003 |
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