Tag: Symmetry
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Imaginary Numbers are Real
Imaginary and complex numbers are handicapped by the name we gave them. “Imaginary” has obvious and bad connotations: it implies an object made up, perhaps not useful; “complex” similarly seems to argue the numbers are too hard to use. As with so much in math and physics, however, the names are historical, and complexity is…
Matthew R. Francis
Galileo's Pendulum 