Complex Numbers
... negative real numbers can be obtained by squaring complex (imaginary) numbers. Complex numbers were first conceived and defined by the Italian mathematician Girolamo Cardano, who called them "fictitious", during his attempts to find solutions to cubic equations. The solution of a general cubic equat ...
... negative real numbers can be obtained by squaring complex (imaginary) numbers. Complex numbers were first conceived and defined by the Italian mathematician Girolamo Cardano, who called them "fictitious", during his attempts to find solutions to cubic equations. The solution of a general cubic equat ...