Imagining Numbers by Barry Mazur
This is a book about the imagination in general and about the mathematical imagination in particular. Barry Mazur considers the range of our imaginative experiences. When we read a line of poetry - "The yellow of the tulip" - what is it we experience in the mind's eye? And when we imagine a number, in particular an impossible number such as the square root of a negative quantity, what imaginative object might this bring to mind?
Barry Mazur is a celebrated pure mathematician. He is University Professor at Harvard, Harvard's most distinguished faculty post. His work has been influential in many fields and proved vital for the solution of Fermat Last Theorem. Known for the technique called Mazur's Swindle.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780713996302 |
| ISBN 10 | 0713996307 |
| Title | Imagining Numbers |
| Author | Barry Mazur |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2003-03-27 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
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