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There’s nothing magical here, the first term describes a 180 degree rotation around a circle of radius 1, landing you at -1. Then you add 1 and you land at the
by j7ake 7y ago
There’s nothing magical here, the first term describes a 180 degree rotation around a circle of radius 1, landing you at -1. Then you add 1 and you land at the Center of your circle, (0,0).
- ColinWright 7y agoSo why does the first term describe a 180 degree rotation? People learn that 2^3 means to take three copies of 2 and multiply them together, and that i^2 is -1, so what does it mean to take (i pi) copies of e and multiply them together? The part you are describing is not where the magic resides ...
- Koshkin 7y agoWell, there is nothing magical in a magic after you explain it.
- lonelappde 7y agoBut why does rotation work as a model of complex numbers? It's (mathe)magical!