• DocumentCode
    757820
  • Title

    The Trouble with Numbers

  • Author

    Gordon, Charles K.

  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    1964
  • Firstpage
    136
  • Lastpage
    145
  • Abstract
    The trouble with numbers is that they are fictitious characters. Just a few hundred years ago negative numbers were indeed called fictitious, and more recent times have witnessed the advent of imaginary numbers and the so-called hypercomplex numbers, the latter not being numbers at all.
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Education, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9359
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TE.1964.4321867
  • Filename
    4321867
    • Link To Document
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