January 2019
Intermediate to advanced
304 pages
7h 4m
English
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7COMPLEX NUMBERS
Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit, almost an amphibian between being and non-being. —Gottfried Leibniz
Numbers containing the square root of –1 have been given a bad name in math classes. We call the square root of –1 an imaginary number, or i. Calling something “imaginary” makes it seem like it doesn’t exist or like there’s no real purpose for it. But imaginary numbers do exist, and they have a lot of real-world applications in fields such as electromagnetism, for instance.
In this chapter, you get a taste of the kinds of beautiful art you can create using complex numbers, which are numbers ...