The Trouble with Numbers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20294607 |
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| Authors | Charles K Gordon (The Aerospace Corporation, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1964 |
| Volume | E-7 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 136-145 |
| Publication date | 1964-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | IEEE Transactions on Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-9359 • E-ISSN: 1557-9638 |
| Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1109/te.1964.4321867 |
| OpenAlex | W2081207537 |
| Language | EN |
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
Arithmetic · Discrete mathematics · Geometry · Hypercomplex number · Quaternion · Real number · The Imaginary · Benford’s Law and Fraud Detection · Computer Science · Mathematics · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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