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THE SQUARE ROOT OF NEGATIVE ONE IS IMAGINARY

Volume: 25, Issue: 3, Pages: 64 - 82
Published: May 3, 2020
Abstract
I focus on specific practices in twentieth- and twenty-first-century mathematics of articulating, barring, taming, and operating with what mathematicians widely call mathematical monsters. I describe how over centuries the quotidian procedures of the epitome of rational practice – mathematics – have produced beings outside the extant purified categories understood by theorems and proofs, despite, and sometimes as a consequence of, ever greater...
Paper Details
Title
THE SQUARE ROOT OF NEGATIVE ONE IS IMAGINARY
Published Date
May 3, 2020
Journal
Volume
25
Issue
3
Pages
64 - 82
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