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'''''Imagining Numbers: (particularly the square root of minus fifteen)''''' is a 2003 [[popular mathematics]] book by mathematician [[Barry Mazur]].<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/308604.Imagining_Numbers?from_search=true|publisher=[[goodreads.com]]|title=Imagining Numbers by Barry Mazur |isbn=978-0-14-100887-5 |accessdate=2014-12-30}}</ref>  
'''''Imagining Numbers: (particularly the square root of minus fifteen)''''' is a 2003 [[popular mathematics]] book by mathematician [[Barry Mazur]].<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/308604.Imagining_Numbers?from_search=true|publisher=[[goodreads.com]]|title=Imagining Numbers by Barry Mazur |isbn=978-0-14-100887-5 |accessdate=2014-12-30}}</ref>  
The aim of the book is not a history of imaginary numbers but an attempt to
The aim of the book is not a history of imaginary numbers, but an attempt to:
:''re-create, in ourselves, the shift of mathematical thought that makes it possible to imagine these numbers''.<ref>{{cite news|first1=Jonathan|last1=Heawood|accessdate=2020-08-17|title=Observer review: Imagining Numbers by Barry Mazur|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/may/18/scienceandnature.features|newspaper=The Observer|date=18 May 2003|issn=0029-7712|via=www.theguardian.com}}</ref>
:''re-create, in ourselves, the shift of mathematical thought that makes it possible to imagine these numbers''.<ref>{{cite news|first1=Jonathan|last1=Heawood|accessdate=2020-08-17|title=Observer review: Imagining Numbers by Barry Mazur|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/may/18/scienceandnature.features|newspaper=The Observer|date=18 May 2003|issn=0029-7712|via=www.theguardian.com}}</ref>


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Imagining Numbers: (particularly the square root of minus fifteen) is a 2003 popular mathematics book by mathematician Barry Mazur.[1] The aim of the book is not a history of imaginary numbers, but an attempt to:

re-create, in ourselves, the shift of mathematical thought that makes it possible to imagine these numbers.[2]

The book was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

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