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In the mid-eighteenth century, Swiss-born mathematician Leonhard Euler developed a formula so innovative and complex that it continues to inspire research, disc

"Enter the wildly inventive world of Imaginary Numbers, in which a marvelous roster of acclaimed writers conjure up magical happenings, fantastic visions, and b

Today complex numbers have such widespread practical use--from electrical engineering to aeronautics--that few people would expect the story behind their deriva

Illuminating, widely praised book on analytic geometry of circles, the Moebius transformation, and 2-dimensional non-Euclidean geometries.

This is a self-contained book that covers the standard topics in introductory analysis and that in addition constructs the natural, rational, real and complex n