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08.28.06
Vampires are the imaginary numbers of modern literature
After a bad beginning, I spent the flight home from Colorado reading Barry Mazur’s Imagining Numbers, which looks at how we might best conceive of imaginary numbers, those uncomfortable gremlins that occur when you start looking for the square root of negative numbers.
The book was only okay. It tried to be history lesson, philosophical [...]
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