Imagining Numbers
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Mathematician Barry Mazur authored a book entitled Imagining Numbers: (particularly the square root of minus fifteen). Farrar, Straus and Giroux published the book in 2003. A purpose of the book, apparently, is to show that mathematics in human society is durative by nature.
In the preface, Mazur describes the target audience of the book as follows.
- This book...is written for people who have no training in mathematics and who may not have actively thought about mathematics since high school, or even during it, but who may wish to experience an act of mathematical imagining and to consider how such an experience compares with the imaginative work involved in reading and understanding a phrase in a poem.