The first complete English translation of Pavel Florensky’s original and ambitious attempt to arrive at a geometric representation of imaginary numbers, in a context that had already captured the attention of other mathematicians, including Gauss, Argan, Cauchy and Bellavitis
This is the first complete English translation of Pavel Florensky&;s original and ambitious attempt to arrive at a geometric representation of imaginary numbers, in a context that had already captured the attention of other mathematicians, including Gauss, Argan, Cauchy and Bellavitis. Pavel Florensky (1882-1937), a mathematician, scientist, engineer and inventor, as well as philosopher and theologian, did not limit his attempt solely to complex projective geometry, but extended it to encompass Ptolemaic-Dantean cosmology, Einstein&;s principle of relativity as well as a new epistemological theory. The resulting treatise combines various disciplines and explores the relationship between an immanent realm of knowledge and a transcendent one. For this work and others, however, Florensky &; one of the most brilliant and wide-ranging minds of the 20th century &; ultimately paid with his life.
