| 【当店の商品詳細・付属品や状態はコンディション説明でご確認ください。こちらに記載がある場合は書籍本体・内容の説明や元の付属品の説明であり、当店の商品とは異なる場合があります。参考としてご覧ください。】 Today complex numbers have such widespread practical use--from electrical engineering to aeronautics--that few people would expect the story behind their derivation to be filled with adventure and enigma. InAn 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 asi. He recreates the baffling mathematical problems that conjured it up, and the colorful characters who tried to solve them.In 1878, when・・・ |