This is an excerpt, pages 41-47, from George GamowÕs ONE TWO THREE
. . . INFINITY: Facts and
speculations of science.
It was published by Viking Press in 1947 and reprinted by Mentor Books
for the New American Library in 1953. This excerpt is from the 1960 Ninth Printing of the
Mentor Books edition.
Subsequently (and as recently as 1988) it was re-published by Dover
Books and is still available from them.
On page 41 a
discussion of complex numbers begins. After Figure 10 on page 44, the discussion of the
Treasure Problem begins and the problem, with a solution using complex numbers,
is presented pp 44-47.
