Complex Numbers

Guerino Mazzola; Maria Mannone; Yan Pang

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-42937-3_14

Complex Numbers

Guerino Mazzola, Maria Mannone, Yan Pang

Music (Twin Cities)

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Square roots of negative real numbers are not defined yet. We introduce complex numbers to solve this problem. Essentially, we introduce an imaginary number i, the square root of −1, and thereby add a new dimension to the real numbers.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Computational Music Science
Publisher	Springer Nature
Pages	113-117
Number of pages	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42937-3_14
State	Published - 2016

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Name	Computational Music Science
ISSN (Print)	1868-0305
ISSN (Electronic)	1868-0313

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