Anonymous at Sat, 4 May 2024 16:04:28 UTC No. 16159224

>>16159168
>Today, I will copy the works of LeGendre and others and pass them off as my own writings.

Anonymous at Sat, 4 May 2024 16:22:39 UTC No. 16159255

I hate Gauß for coining the term "complex numbers". Previously based Descartes called them imaginary and stressed that they are not numbers but merely some obscure and ungeometric algebraic tool. Then Gauß came along and ruined math by declaring this abomination to be a field of numbers even though it clearly isn't.

Anonymous at Sat, 4 May 2024 21:02:16 UTC No. 16159611

>>16159255
complex numbers have a beautiful geometric representation once you get it.

Anonymous at Sat, 4 May 2024 21:30:02 UTC No. 16159647

>>16159255
We lost a lot when mathematics moved away from geometry into the realm of pure numerical equations. Same thing happened to physics.

Anonymous at Sat, 4 May 2024 21:35:06 UTC No. 16159655

>>16159255
but anon, imaginary numbers are a subset of complex numbers. both terms are in use and distinct in meaning.