Humanities scholar Lee Eun-soo, professor of philosophy at Seoul National University (left), and mathematician Lee Seung-jae, postdoctoral researcher at Seoul National University (right) Squaring 0 ...

Master Complex Numbers with Engaging Worksheets! Help your Algebra 2 students conquer multiplying complex numbers with this comprehensive set of worksheets! Perfect for Unit 2 on imaginary and complex ...

Malcontent Wes popped into the comments of our recent post on the mathematical improbability of vampires with a link to a blog post with a great math-vampire analogy: vampires are the imaginary ...

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, ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. §I.1 THIS BOOK IS A HISTORY OF ALGEBRA, written for the curious nonmathematician. It ...

Imagine winding the hour hand of a clock back from 3 o’clock to noon. Mathematicians have long known how to describe this rotation as a simple multiplication: A number representing the initial ...

In this video playlist, you will learn everything you need to know with complex and imaginary numbers -8/3i A cardiologist’s no. 1 rule for healthy eating is avoiding this food: ‘I don’t touch it’ Why ...

It turns out that imaginary numbers aren’t really needed for quantum mechanics.

§2.1 FROM EGYPT TO EGYPT: Diophantus, 15 the father of algebra, in whose honor I have named this chapter, lived in Alexandria, in Roman Egypt, in either the 1st, the 2nd, or the 3rd century CE. I ...