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, ...

(THE CONVERSATION) 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 ...

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 ...

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