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An Imaginary Tale: The Story of the Square Root of -1 Paperback - 1998
by Paul J. Nahin
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- Title An Imaginary Tale: The Story of the Square Root of -1
- Author Paul J. Nahin
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: repri
- Condition Used - Near Fine
- Pages 267
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J
- Date 1998
- Illustrated Yes
- Bookseller's Inventory # 072322-2-12
- ISBN 9780691127989 / 0691127980
- Weight 0.91 lbs (0.41 kg)
- Dimensions 8.32 x 6 x 0.78 in (21.13 x 15.24 x 1.98 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Numbers, Complex
- Dewey Decimal Code 515.9
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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.