Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Taking a leap of faith into imaginary numbers opens new doors in the real world through complex analysis

(Version anglaise seulement)

par William Ross, Professor of Mathematics, University of Richmond

To a nonmathematician, having the letter “i” represent a number that does not quite exist and is “imaginary” can be hard to wrap your head around. If you open your mind to this way of thinking, however, a whole new world becomes possible.

I’m a mathematician who studies analysis: an area of math that deals with complex numbers. Unlike the more familiar real numbers – positive and negative integers, fractions, square roots, cube roots…

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