NOUN
- (mathematics) a number of the form a+bi where a and b are real numbers and i is the square root of -1
How To Use complex number In A Sentence
- Instead of standing up to them and telling them to stick it, I just ended up juggling a complex number of lies.
- Other examples are negative numbers, complex numbers, trigonometry, raising to powers, logarithms, and the beginnings of calculus.
- It also only worked, he noted, when certain imaginary parts of two complex numbers cancelled out.
- In 1849 he published Trigonometry and double algebra in which he gave a geometric interpretation of complex numbers.
- Actually, Gauss was not really the first to use a geometrical description of complex numbers.
- Bombelli was the first person to write down the rules for addition, subtraction and multiplication of complex numbers.
- In addition to his work on geometry, Bolyai developed a rigorous geometric concept of complex numbers as ordered pairs of real numbers.
- This is worth unravelling, even at the expense of a brief excursion into the mathematical realm of complex numbers.
- Mathematicians find uses for complex numbers in solving equations.
- We derive the addition formulas for sine and cosine from the arithmetic of complex numbers.
