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A lot of the issues around complex numbers can be intuitively resolved by drawing a unit circle around 0 on a numberline, and reasoning backwards to a definitio
by mjburgess 3y ago
A lot of the issues around complex numbers can be intuitively resolved by drawing a unit circle around 0 on a numberline, and reasoning backwards to a definition of i. Rather than reasoning forwards from sqrt(-1)
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- dboreham 3y agoPuzzled expression because that's how I thought complex numbers were taught. (Second generation EE)
- acuozzo 3y agoIn many American schools Mathematics is taught as if it were composed solely of magic recipes. Students need only to memorize the patterns described in the red boxes in the textbook to pass.
- mjburgess 3y agoIt is often taught by its historical development, so first as an alleged imaginary solution to an equation with no real roots. This has it backwards as far as intuition is concerned. The geometric interpretation is the obvious one, and the use of `i` in finding zeros is a special case.