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But complex numbers live up to their name: The set’s boundary is magnificently intricate.
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Quanta Magazine, 26 Jan. 2024
So if a proof requires an intermediate step in which, for example, there are complex numbers that may contain square roots of negative values, programming languages specialized for geometry cannot be used.
—Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 17 Jan. 2024
Increasingly, economists, scholars and individual workers are harnessing data to determine a person’s lifetime wealth accumulation, a complex number scaffolded by social and cultural factors that intensify the effect of women’s pay inequality into their retirement years.
—Kim Bellware, Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2024
Quadratic reciprocity was the inspiration, according to Conrad. Patterns that had been elusive without complex numbers now started to emerge.
—Quanta Magazine, 1 Nov. 2023
This changed once Gauss brought reciprocity into the realm of complex numbers, which add the square root of minus 1, represented by i, to ordinary numbers.
—Quanta Magazine, 1 Nov. 2023
The idea of what are known as complex numbers — a set of numbers larger than what most people encounter in math class — is even older, although for centuries even mathematicians did not know what to make of them.
—Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2023
Any complex number can therefore be represented as a point in a two-dimensional plane.
—Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 21 Sep. 2023
As a result, mathematicians often turn to the complex numbers, which can be thought of as pairs of real numbers.
—Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 21 Sep. 2023
Quanta Magazine, 26 Jan. 2024
So if a proof requires an intermediate step in which, for example, there are complex numbers that may contain square roots of negative values, programming languages specialized for geometry cannot be used.
—Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 17 Jan. 2024
Increasingly, economists, scholars and individual workers are harnessing data to determine a person’s lifetime wealth accumulation, a complex number scaffolded by social and cultural factors that intensify the effect of women’s pay inequality into their retirement years.
—Kim Bellware, Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2024
Quadratic reciprocity was the inspiration, according to Conrad. Patterns that had been elusive without complex numbers now started to emerge.
—Quanta Magazine, 1 Nov. 2023
This changed once Gauss brought reciprocity into the realm of complex numbers, which add the square root of minus 1, represented by i, to ordinary numbers.
—Quanta Magazine, 1 Nov. 2023
The idea of what are known as complex numbers — a set of numbers larger than what most people encounter in math class — is even older, although for centuries even mathematicians did not know what to make of them.
—Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2023
Any complex number can therefore be represented as a point in a two-dimensional plane.
—Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 21 Sep. 2023
As a result, mathematicians often turn to the complex numbers, which can be thought of as pairs of real numbers.
—Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 21 Sep. 2023
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“Complex number.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/complex%20number. Accessed 25 Apr. 2024.
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