Lucas Scialabba itibaren High Hunsley, Cottingham, East Riding of Yorkshire , UK

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I've been bored with reading novels lately, so I was looking for something a bit more inspiring and challenging. This book really hit the spot! I wouldn't call it a non-fiction book per se, but something more of a supplementary book for those interested in digging deeper into a subject. Here the subject under discussion was complex numbers (specifically the imaginary number i). In the preface, the author claims that no book has ever been written on this subject alone in a non-text book form, so he took it upon himself to do so (he is an electrical engineer and was fascinated with complex numbers while growing up). Well hats off to Eng. Nahin, because he did an amazing job! The author began with a historical summary of i and the mathematical problems that it surfaced from. He then moved on to some important applications. I really enjoyed chapters 4-6, which contained some problems and uses of complex numbers. There was a chapter titled "Wizard Mathematics"!! I had a field day with that one. The title alone was so exciting! I loved going through the proof of how according to complex number theory, the shortest distance between two points is NOT a straight line (shortcuts through hyperspace?!?... I know right!), Schellbach's method of using i^i to calculate pi, and more on the genius of Professor Euler. Even the Appendixes were rich with more problems and proofs, it makes you want to savor every page! I just wish that I had read this book while I was studying complex numbers and Cauchy's Theorems last year. It would've been easier to work out all the derivations while everything was still fresh. I think that the reader would appreciate this book more if she/he had at least some basic knowledge of complex numbers and calculus. It is definitely worth going through the mathematics yourself using pencil and paper, because let me tell you The Story of i is epic!

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