Haven't read it, but it's obviously wrong. To expand: any time you read "...magical complex numbers" just mentally replace "complex" with "negative" and then e

Haven't read it, but it's obviously wrong. To expand: any time you read "...magical complex numbers" just mentally replace "complex" with "negative" and then examine how odd the original text now reads. There's nothing fundamentally different between the concept of negative numbers, and complex numbers.