Concept

Imaginary number

Overview

complex number that can be written as a real number multiplied by i

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Philosophers who discussed Imaginary number

• Periodic table

Related ideas

• Princeton University Press
• Gerolamo Cardano
• Mathematician
• Real number
• René Descartes
• 0
• Engineer
• Wiley (publisher)
• Complex number
• Carl Friedrich Gauss

Place in the tradition

Part of Philosophy of mathematics.

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