An Imaginary Tale

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. Best Read An Imaginary Tale Author Paul J. Nahin For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr This is a great book about one of the most beautiful and fascinating subjects of maths the world of imaginary complex numbers and of complex analysis This is a book unapologetically mathematical in contents and approach, a real math book with real math, sometimes dense and sometimes beyond the freshman calculus level, but it is never too difficult if you have the patience and perseverance to go through the many fascinating and intriguing examples and theorems And if you persevere, the intel This is a great book about one of the most beautiful and fascinating subjects of maths the world of imaginary complex numbers and of complex analysis This is a book unapologetically mathematical in contents and approach, a real math book with real math, sometimes dense and sometimes beyond the freshman calculus level, but it is nev...I ve been bored with reading novels lately, so I was looking for something a bitinspiring and challenging This book really hit the spot I wouldn t call it a non fiction book per se, but somethingof a supplementary book for those interested in digging deeper into a subject Here the subject under discussion was complex numbers specifically the imaginary number i In the preface, the author claims that no book has ever been written on this subject alone in a non text book form, so h I ve been bored with reading novels lately...I was hoping to really like this book, as it involves my favorite equation, Euler s identity, e i pi 1 0.Such an elegant way to connect the five most important constants in math, along with fundamental mathematical operations Unfortunately, the understanding of the math involved in the book, which I m sure I used to have 50 years ago when I got my BA in math, has left me I had to skip over most of the equations in the book and there are a lot of them , so I don t even know if I can co I was hoping to really like this book, as it involves my favorite equation, Euler s identity, e i pi 1 0.Such an elegant way to connect the five most important constants in math, along with fundamental mathematical operations Unfortun...Great history and math book You definitely need a lot of math to fully appreciate this book if you don t have background up to trig, and preferably calculus, you ll find all but the first couple of chapters impenetrable If you fit the pre reqs though, it is very interesting I found how much my math has degenerated as every now and then I just ...Yeah, yeah, I should know better than to expect much from a book on math, but I ve actually read some decent ones This one was supposed to be on layman s terms, but it was so technical that it might as well have been written in French Not...Very technical for a popular book, though admittedly most of my reference points are pop science rather than pop maths It s certainly no The Road to Reality A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe, but it s farmathematical than any other pop science book I can think of, and it s muchdemanding than, say, Ellenberg s excellent How Not to Be Wrong The Power of Mathematical Thinking, which is the only pop maths book I can think of off the top of my head In any case, I found it Very technical for a popular book, though admittedly most of my reference points are pop science rather than pop maths It s certainly no The Road to Reality A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe, but it s farmathematical than any other pop science book I can think of, and it s m...I m going to hold off on rating this for now, since the Kindle edition is so messed up that I could not read a lot of the formulas.This book is a comprehensive history of the number i It explains the history of the idea of the number itself, its geometric and interpretation, and then its applications.He says that a high school graduate who studied calculus should be fine reading it, but I wouldn t quite agree You have to have calculus pretty fresh on your mind to just div...It s only been three and a half years since I ve been in an upper level math class, and yet, I felt like a dunce at many points in this book.Granted, that may have been due to Nahin s decidedly engineer fascinated by math style of writing that style does exist, I swear I grew up with my dad teaching me math in a way that can only be described as filtered through an engineer s mind aside from my dad, the people I spoke math with were all mathematicians.I should have read this when I first rec It s only been three and a half years since I ve been in an upper level math class, and yet, I felt like a dunce at many points in this book.Granted, that may have been due to Nahin s decidedly engineer fascinated by math style of writing that style does exist, I swear I grew up with my dad teaching me math in a way that can only be described as filtered through an engineer s mind aside from my dad, the people I spoke math with were all mathematicians.I should ha...I now realize why I took all that % math in University it was to be able to read this book Why can t school math be presented like this Anyway, if you remember any trig or calc read this and enjoy the part where Einstein s contribution to general relativity gets explained it a way that makes sense.Edit This is a real math book, with real math Like, solving differential equations math But there s a story you can follow without following every step of the calculations as long as you can I now realize why I took all that % math in University it was to be able to read this book Why can t school math be presented like this Anyway, if ...one of the best mathematics books ever written the last two chapters have significant mathematical formalism mostly complex analysis , but up until that point almost any calculus student will understand the arguments presented some of the most elegant a...

• English
• 25 August 2017
Paul J. Nahin
• Paperback
• 267 pages
• 0691127980
• Paul J. Nahin
• An Imaginary Tale