An imaginary number is the product of a real number and the imaginary unit i, which is defined by its property i2 = −1. The square of an imaginary number...
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An Imaginary Tale (French: Une histoire inventée) is a 1990 Canadian drama film directed by André Forcier. The film was selected as the Canadian entry...
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The imaginary unit or unit imaginary number (i) is a solution to the quadratic equation x2 + 1 = 0. Although there is no real number with this property...
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Complex number (redirect from Imaginary part)
complex number is an element of a number system that extends the real numbers with a specific element denoted i, called the imaginary unit and satisfying...
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Selkie (section Orkney tales)
p. 175. Dennison (1893), pp. 175–176: Dennison believed it to be "an imaginary tale, invented by gossips". Hibbert (1891), p. 264. Dennison (1893), p...
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James R. (1938). Solid Mensuration with Proofs. p. 67. Nahin, Paul. An Imaginary Tale: The story of √−1. Princeton University Press. 1998 "Mathwords.com:...
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Sandifer (1999) Review:Imaginary Tale from Mathematical Association of America. Blank, Brian E. (November 1999). "Review of An imaginary tale: The story of √-1...
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on the square root spiral, arXiv:0712.2184 Nahin, Paul J. (1998), An Imaginary Tale: The Story of − 1 {\displaystyle {\sqrt {-1}}} , Princeton University...
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John Wiley & Sons, 2011 ISBN 978-0-471-43331-6. Nahin, Paul J.; An Imaginary Tale; Princeton University Press; (hardcover, 1998). ISBN 0-691-02795-1...
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IF (film) (redirect from Imaginary Friends (film))
childhood imaginary friend Phoebe Waller-Bridge as Blossom, an excitable humanoid butterfly who was Bea’s grandmother’s childhood imaginary friend Louis...
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Superman (section An allegory for immigrants)
was the first story in which Superman and Lois marry that was not an "imaginary tale." Many Superman stories since then have depicted Superman and Lois...
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Look up Tale or tale in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tale may refer to: Narrative, or story, a report of real or imaginary connected events TAL effector...
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Drop bear (section Stories and tall tales)
predatory, carnivorous version of the koala. This imaginary animal is commonly spoken about in tall tales designed to scare tourists. While koalas are typically...
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Press. ISBN 978-0-262-08040-8. OCLC 185662235. Nahin, Paul J. (2010). An Imaginary Tale: The Story of √-1. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9 78-1-4008-3389-4...
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American comic book tropes (section Imaginary tales, Elseworlds, alternates, possible futures, What If...?)
Universe removed many stories from "official canon", explaining them as Imaginary Tales or ignoring them completely.[citation needed] Retcon or "ret-con" is...
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Gamma. Princeton. ISBN 978-0-691-09983-5. Paul J. Nahin (1998). An Imaginary Tale: The Story of − 1 {\displaystyle {\sqrt {-1}}} . Princeton. ISBN 978-0691027951...
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The Handmaid's Tale is a feminist dystopian novel, combining the characteristics of dystopian fiction: "a genre that projects an imaginary society that...
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Mother Goose (redirect from Tales of My Mother Goose)
character that originated in children's fiction, as the imaginary author of a collection of French fairy tales and later of English nursery rhymes. She also appeared...
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Chapter VI, §I.1 Maxwell 1959, Chapter VI, §II Nahin, Paul J. (2010). An Imaginary Tale: The Story of "i". Princeton University Press. p. 12. ISBN 978-1-4008-3029-9...
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Times. (June 12, 2008) 'Love Letters' book in 'Sex and City' movie an imaginary tale, Albany Times Union (Albany, New York) Strauss, Victoria (May 23,...
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doi:10.1016/S0377-0427(01)00496-4 as PDF Nahin, Paul J. (1998), An Imaginary Tale: The Story of − 1 {\displaystyle {\sqrt {-1}}} , Princeton, New Jersey:...
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foray into writing for herself as an actress was her 1996 one-woman show Letters to Ben Stein, an imaginary tale of an epistolary romance with the actor/economist...
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Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends is an American animated television series created by Craig McCracken for Cartoon Network. It was produced by Cartoon...
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The Canterbury Tales (Middle English: Tales of Caunterbury) is a collection of twenty-four stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English...
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Drouin and François Dompierre's I. She appeared in films including An Imaginary Tale (Une histoire inventée), The Wind from Wyoming (Le vent du Wyoming)...
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Little Red Riding Hood (redirect from History of the Little Red Riding Hood tale)
European fairy tale about a young girl and a sly wolf. Its origins can be traced back to several pre-17th-century European folk tales. The two best known...
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movie, Telescene Film Group Productions 1987 - writer and producer An Imaginary Tale - feature, Telescene Film Group Productions, André Forcier 1990 -...
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Changed Its Spots: The Evolution of Complexity by Brian Goodwin (1997) An Imaginary Tale: The Story of − 1 {\displaystyle {\sqrt {-1}}} by Paul J. Nahin (1998)...
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fall, the public needed more time to see films, so the ceremony was moved to an autumn date. There was also a fundamental change in voting procedures; now...
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Elseworlds (redirect from Imaginary Stories)
Robert Kanigher supervised Wonder Woman's own series of Imaginary Stories called Impossible Tales which featured the same principle.[citation needed] There...
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