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It's clickbait I guess. IIRC einstein had to dip into math for imaginary numbers and non-euclidean spaces for his theory on general relativity, but imaginary n
by oreally 4y ago
It's clickbait I guess.
IIRC einstein had to dip into math for imaginary numbers and non-euclidean spaces for his theory on general relativity, but imaginary numbers aren't the most intuitive in the physical world and one at first conception one wouldn't think it should be in there. Yet imaginary numbers do help in many computations - for example, 3d rotations use quaternions that use imaginary numbers.
- jacobolus 4y agoComplex numbers "are" (i.e. are isomorphic to, and can be conveniently thought of as) ratios of vectors in the Euclidean plane. http://geocalc.clas.asu.edu/pdf/OerstedMedalLecture.pdf http://geocalc.clas.asu.edu/pdf/OerstedMedalLecture.pdf Any kind of physics involving >1 dimensional Euclidean space inherently involves complex numbers.