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Imaginary unit

Index Imaginary unit

The imaginary unit or unit imaginary number is a solution to the quadratic equation Although there is no real number with this property, can be used to extend the real numbers to what are called complex numbers, using addition and multiplication. [1]

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  1. 92 relations: Absolute value, Addition, Additive inverse, Algebra, Algebraic closure, American Scientist, Argument (complex analysis), Automorphism, Bivector, Branch point, Cartesian coordinate system, Circle group, Clockwise, Coefficient, Complex conjugate, Complex logarithm, Complex number, Complex plane, Control engineering, Cube root, Cyclic group, Cylinder, Determinant, Electric current, Electrical engineering, Equating coefficients, Euclidean plane, Euclidean space, Euclidean vector, Euler's formula, Even and odd functions, Exponential function, Factorial, Field (mathematics), Fundamental theorem of algebra, Galois group, Gamma function, Gamma matrices, Gaussian integer, Geometric algebra, Group (mathematics), Hermann Grassmann, Hyperbolic functions, Ideal (ring theory), Identity function, Identity matrix, Imaginary number, Integer, Isaac Newton, Isomorphism, ... Expand index (42 more) »

  2. Algebraic numbers
  3. Complex numbers
  4. Quadratic irrational numbers

Absolute value

In mathematics, the absolute value or modulus of a real number x, is the non-negative value without regard to its sign.

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Addition

Addition (usually signified by the plus symbol) is one of the four basic operations of arithmetic, the other three being subtraction, multiplication and division.

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Additive inverse

In mathematics, the additive inverse of a number (sometimes called the opposite of) is the number that, when added to, yields zero.

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Algebra

Algebra is the branch of mathematics that studies algebraic structures and the manipulation of statements within those structures.

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Algebraic closure

In mathematics, particularly abstract algebra, an algebraic closure of a field K is an algebraic extension of K that is algebraically closed.

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American Scientist

American Scientist (informally abbreviated AmSci) is an American bimonthly science and technology magazine published since 1913 by Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society.

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Argument (complex analysis)

In mathematics (particularly in complex analysis), the argument of a complex number, denoted, is the angle between the positive real axis and the line joining the origin and, represented as a point in the complex plane, shown as \varphi in Figure 1.

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Automorphism

In mathematics, an automorphism is an isomorphism from a mathematical object to itself.

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Bivector

In mathematics, a bivector or 2-vector is a quantity in exterior algebra or geometric algebra that extends the idea of scalars and vectors.

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Branch point

In the mathematical field of complex analysis, a branch point of a multivalued function is a point such that if the function is n-valued (has n values) at that point, all of its neighborhoods contain a point that has more than n values.

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Cartesian coordinate system

In geometry, a Cartesian coordinate system in a plane is a coordinate system that specifies each point uniquely by a pair of real numbers called coordinates, which are the signed distances to the point from two fixed perpendicular oriented lines, called coordinate lines, coordinate axes or just axes (plural of axis) of the system.

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Circle group

In mathematics, the circle group, denoted by \mathbb T or, is the multiplicative group of all complex numbers with absolute value 1, that is, the unit circle in the complex plane or simply the unit complex numbers \mathbb T.

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Clockwise

Two-dimensional rotation can occur in two possible directions or senses of rotation.

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Coefficient

In mathematics, a coefficient is a multiplicative factor involved in some term of a polynomial, a series, or an expression.

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Complex conjugate

In mathematics, the complex conjugate of a complex number is the number with an equal real part and an imaginary part equal in magnitude but opposite in sign. Imaginary unit and complex conjugate are complex numbers.

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Complex logarithm

In mathematics, a complex logarithm is a generalization of the natural logarithm to nonzero complex numbers.

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Complex number

In mathematics, a complex number is an element of a number system that extends the real numbers with a specific element denoted, called the imaginary unit and satisfying the equation i^. Imaginary unit and complex number are complex numbers.

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Complex plane

In mathematics, the complex plane is the plane formed by the complex numbers, with a Cartesian coordinate system such that the horizontal -axis, called the real axis, is formed by the real numbers, and the vertical -axis, called the imaginary axis, is formed by the imaginary numbers. Imaginary unit and complex plane are complex numbers.

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Control engineering

Control engineering or control systems engineering or Automation engineering (In Some European Countries) is an engineering discipline that deals with control systems, applying control theory to design equipment and systems with desired behaviors in control environments.

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Cube root

In mathematics, a cube root of a number is a number such that.

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Cyclic group

In abstract algebra, a cyclic group or monogenous group is a group, denoted Cn (also frequently \Zn or Zn, not to be confused with the commutative ring of p-adic numbers), that is generated by a single element.

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Cylinder

A cylinder has traditionally been a three-dimensional solid, one of the most basic of curvilinear geometric shapes.

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Determinant

In mathematics, the determinant is a scalar-valued function of the entries of a square matrix.

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Electric current

An electric current is a flow of charged particles, such as electrons or ions, moving through an electrical conductor or space.

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Electrical engineering

Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems which use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism.

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Equating coefficients

In mathematics, the method of equating the coefficients is a way of solving a functional equation of two expressions such as polynomials for a number of unknown parameters.

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Euclidean plane

In mathematics, a Euclidean plane is a Euclidean space of dimension two, denoted \textbf^2 or \mathbb^2.

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Euclidean space

Euclidean space is the fundamental space of geometry, intended to represent physical space.

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Euclidean vector

In mathematics, physics, and engineering, a Euclidean vector or simply a vector (sometimes called a geometric vector or spatial vector) is a geometric object that has magnitude (or length) and direction.

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Euler's formula

Euler's formula, named after Leonhard Euler, is a mathematical formula in complex analysis that establishes the fundamental relationship between the trigonometric functions and the complex exponential function.

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Even and odd functions

In mathematics, an even function is a real function such that f(-x).

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Exponential function

The exponential function is a mathematical function denoted by f(x).

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Factorial

In mathematics, the factorial of a non-negative denoted is the product of all positive integers less than or equal The factorial also equals the product of n with the next smaller factorial: \begin n! &.

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Field (mathematics)

In mathematics, a field is a set on which addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division are defined and behave as the corresponding operations on rational and real numbers.

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Fundamental theorem of algebra

The fundamental theorem of algebra, also called d'Alembert's theorem or the d'Alembert–Gauss theorem, states that every non-constant single-variable polynomial with complex coefficients has at least one complex root.

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Galois group

In mathematics, in the area of abstract algebra known as Galois theory, the Galois group of a certain type of field extension is a specific group associated with the field extension.

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Gamma function

In mathematics, the gamma function (represented by, the capital letter gamma from the Greek alphabet) is one commonly used extension of the factorial function to complex numbers.

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Gamma matrices

In mathematical physics, the gamma matrices, \ \left\\, also called the Dirac matrices, are a set of conventional matrices with specific anticommutation relations that ensure they generate a matrix representation of the Clifford algebra \ \mathrm_(\mathbb) ~. It is also possible to define higher-dimensional gamma matrices.

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Gaussian integer

In number theory, a Gaussian integer is a complex number whose real and imaginary parts are both integers. Imaginary unit and Gaussian integer are algebraic numbers, complex numbers and quadratic irrational numbers.

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Geometric algebra

In mathematics, a geometric algebra (also known as a Clifford algebra) is an extension of elementary algebra to work with geometrical objects such as vectors.

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Group (mathematics)

In mathematics, a group is a set with an operation that associates an element of the set to every pair of elements of the set (as does every binary operation) and satisfies the following constraints: the operation is associative, it has an identity element, and every element of the set has an inverse element.

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Hermann Grassmann

Hermann Günther Grassmann (Graßmann,; 15 April 1809 – 26 September 1877) was a German polymath known in his day as a linguist and now also as a mathematician.

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Hyperbolic functions

In mathematics, hyperbolic functions are analogues of the ordinary trigonometric functions, but defined using the hyperbola rather than the circle.

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Ideal (ring theory)

In mathematics, and more specifically in ring theory, an ideal of a ring is a special subset of its elements.

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Identity function

Graph of the identity function on the real numbers In mathematics, an identity function, also called an identity relation, identity map or identity transformation, is a function that always returns the value that was used as its argument, unchanged.

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Identity matrix

In linear algebra, the identity matrix of size n is the n\times n square matrix with ones on the main diagonal and zeros elsewhere.

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Imaginary number

An imaginary number is the product of a real number and the imaginary unit, is usually used in engineering contexts where has other meanings (such as electrical current) which is defined by its property. Imaginary unit and imaginary number are complex numbers.

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Integer

An integer is the number zero (0), a positive natural number (1, 2, 3,...), or the negation of a positive natural number (−1, −2, −3,...). The negations or additive inverses of the positive natural numbers are referred to as negative integers.

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Isaac Newton

Sir Isaac Newton (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/27) was an English polymath active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author who was described in his time as a natural philosopher.

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Isomorphism

In mathematics, an isomorphism is a structure-preserving mapping between two structures of the same type that can be reversed by an inverse mapping.

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Leonhard Euler

Leonhard Euler (15 April 170718 September 1783) was a Swiss mathematician, physicist, astronomer, geographer, logician, and engineer who founded the studies of graph theory and topology and made pioneering and influential discoveries in many other branches of mathematics such as analytic number theory, complex analysis, and infinitesimal calculus.

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Matrix (mathematics)

In mathematics, a matrix (matrices) is a rectangular array or table of numbers, symbols, or expressions, with elements or entries arranged in rows and columns, which is used to represent a mathematical object or property of such an object.

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Matrix multiplication

In mathematics, particularly in linear algebra, matrix multiplication is a binary operation that produces a matrix from two matrices.

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Multiplication

Multiplication (often denoted by the cross symbol, by the mid-line dot operator, by juxtaposition, or, on computers, by an asterisk) is one of the four elementary mathematical operations of arithmetic, with the other ones being addition, subtraction, and division.

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Multiplicative inverse

In mathematics, a multiplicative inverse or reciprocal for a number x, denoted by 1/x or x−1, is a number which when multiplied by x yields the multiplicative identity, 1.

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Multiplicity (mathematics)

In mathematics, the multiplicity of a member of a multiset is the number of times it appears in the multiset.

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Multivalued function

In mathematics, a multivalued function (also known as a multiple-valued function) is a function that has two or more values in its range for at least one point in its domain.

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Negative number

In mathematics, a negative number represents an opposite.

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Neil Sloane

Neil James Alexander Sloane FLSW (born October 10, 1939) is a British-American mathematician.

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Nth root

In mathematics, an th root of a number is a number (the root) which, when raised to the power of the positive integer, yields: r^n.

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Number line

In elementary mathematics, a number line is a picture of a straight line that serves as spatial representation of numbers, usually graduated like a ruler with a particular origin point representing the number zero and evenly spaced marks in either direction representing integers, imagined to extend infinitely.

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On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences

The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS) is an online database of integer sequences.

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Partial fraction decomposition

In algebra, the partial fraction decomposition or partial fraction expansion of a rational fraction (that is, a fraction such that the numerator and the denominator are both polynomials) is an operation that consists of expressing the fraction as a sum of a polynomial (possibly zero) and one or several fractions with a simpler denominator.

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Polynomial

In mathematics, a polynomial is a mathematical expression consisting of indeterminates (also called variables) and coefficients, that involves only the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and exponentiation to nonnegative integer powers, and has a finite number of terms.

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Principal value

In mathematics, specifically complex analysis, the principal values of a multivalued function are the values along one chosen branch of that function, so that it is single-valued.

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Quadratic equation

In mathematics, a quadratic equation is an equation that can be rearranged in standard form as ax^2 + bx + c.

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Quadratic function

In mathematics, a quadratic polynomial is a polynomial of degree two in one or more variables.

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Radian

The radian, denoted by the symbol rad, is the unit of angle in the International System of Units (SI) and is the standard unit of angular measure used in many areas of mathematics.

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Real number

In mathematics, a real number is a number that can be used to measure a continuous one-dimensional quantity such as a distance, duration or temperature.

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Regular polygon

In Euclidean geometry, a regular polygon is a polygon that is direct equiangular (all angles are equal in measure) and equilateral (all sides have the same length).

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René Descartes

René Descartes (or;; 31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650) was a French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician, widely considered a seminal figure in the emergence of modern philosophy and science.

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Riemann surface

In mathematics, particularly in complex analysis, a Riemann surface is a connected one-dimensional complex manifold.

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Ring (mathematics)

In mathematics, rings are algebraic structures that generalize fields: multiplication need not be commutative and multiplicative inverses need not exist.

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Root of unity

In mathematics, a root of unity, occasionally called a de Moivre number, is any complex number that yields 1 when raised to some positive integer power. Imaginary unit and root of unity are algebraic numbers and complex numbers.

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Similarity (geometry)

In Euclidean geometry, two objects are similar if they have the same shape, or if one has the same shape as the mirror image of the other.

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Split-complex number

In algebra, a split complex number (or hyperbolic number, also perplex number, double number) is based on a hyperbolic unit satisfying j^2.

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Square (algebra)

In mathematics, a square is the result of multiplying a number by itself.

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Square lattice

In mathematics, the square lattice is a type of lattice in a two-dimensional Euclidean space.

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Square root

In mathematics, a square root of a number is a number such that y^2.

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The American Mathematical Monthly

The American Mathematical Monthly is a mathematical journal founded by Benjamin Finkel in 1894.

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Trace (linear algebra)

In linear algebra, the trace of a square matrix, denoted, is defined to be the sum of elements on the main diagonal (from the upper left to the lower right) of.

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Translation (geometry)

In Euclidean geometry, a translation is a geometric transformation that moves every point of a figure, shape or space by the same distance in a given direction.

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Trigonometric functions

In mathematics, the trigonometric functions (also called circular functions, angle functions or goniometric functions) are real functions which relate an angle of a right-angled triangle to ratios of two side lengths.

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Uniqueness quantification

In mathematics and logic, the term "uniqueness" refers to the property of being the one and only object satisfying a certain condition.

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Unit circle

In mathematics, a unit circle is a circle of unit radius—that is, a radius of 1.

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Unit vector

In mathematics, a unit vector in a normed vector space is a vector (often a spatial vector) of length 1.

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Up to

Two mathematical objects and are called "equal up to an equivalence relation ".

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Wiley (publisher)

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., commonly known as Wiley, is an American multinational publishing company that focuses on academic publishing and instructional materials.

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William Kingdon Clifford

William Kingdon Clifford (4 May 18453 March 1879) was a British mathematician and philosopher.

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Zero of a function

In mathematics, a zero (also sometimes called a root) of a real-, complex-, or generally vector-valued function f, is a member x of the domain of f such that f(x) vanishes at x; that is, the function f attains the value of 0 at x, or equivalently, x is a solution to the equation f(x).

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0

0 (zero) is a number representing an empty quantity.

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1

1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity.

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See also

Algebraic numbers

Complex numbers

Quadratic irrational numbers

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaginary_unit

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