Five Square Roots
Bradford, Richard A. W. This book illustrates through five examples how certain square roots, which initially seemed impossible or meaningless, have been achieved. In each case the achievement has opened up a whole new vista of mathematics or physics. In each case our understanding and our intellectual power has been dramatically increased as a result.
This is a maths book, a book about maths, and also in its later parts a physics book. But, undoubtedly because I am...