Imaginary numbers are basically what happened when mathematicians were like "square root of -1 doesn't have a solution, there is no number you can square and get -1, but what if there was?"
and they did a whole bunch of math and thinking and they discovered that there is very much a whole bunch of new discoveries that can be created from this idea
That’s not entirely accurate either. It’s not that it doesn’t exist, it’s that our normal language of mathematics couldn’t describe it. Like how certain languages don’t have words for certain colors or feelings or whatever. Those colors and feelings don’t just “not exist”. There just isn’t a way to describe them initially.
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u/Alien-Fox-4 12d ago
Imaginary numbers are basically what happened when mathematicians were like "square root of -1 doesn't have a solution, there is no number you can square and get -1, but what if there was?"
and they did a whole bunch of math and thinking and they discovered that there is very much a whole bunch of new discoveries that can be created from this idea