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 +<​quote></​quote>​http://​www.math.uri.edu/​~merino/​spring06/​mth562/​ShortHistoryComplexNumbers2006.pdf<​quote>​
 +According to [B. L. van der Waerden, A History of Algebra, Springer Verlag, NY 1985.],
 +
 +"​Cardano was the first to introduce complex numbers a + √−b into algebra, but had misgivings about it."
 +
 +<​quote></​quote>​In Chapter 37 of Ars Magna the following problem is posed:<​quote>​
 +"To divide 10 in two parts, the product of which is 40”.
 +
 +It is clear that this case is impossible. Nevertheless,​ we shall work thus:
 +
 +We divide 10 into two equal parts, making each 5.
 +
 +These we square, making 25.
 +
 +Subtract 40, if you will, from the 25 thus produced, as I showed you in the chapter on operations in the sixth book leaving a remainder of -15,
 +
 +the square root of which added to or subtracted from 5 gives parts the product of which is 40.
 +
 +These will be 5 + √−15 and 5 − √−15.
 +
 +Putting aside the mental tortures involved, multiply 5 + √−15 and 5 −√−15
 +
 +making 25 − (−15) which is +15. Hence this product is 40.
 +</​quote></​quote>​
 +
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 +
 perhaps re the lesson connecting to Argand Plane, use: perhaps re the lesson connecting to Argand Plane, use:
 +
 <​quote></​quote>​http://​www.math.uri.edu/​~merino/​spring06/​mth562/​ShortHistoryComplexNumbers2006.pdf<​quote>​ <​quote></​quote>​http://​www.math.uri.edu/​~merino/​spring06/​mth562/​ShortHistoryComplexNumbers2006.pdf<​quote>​
 There are indications that Gauss had been in possession of the geometric representation of complex numbers since 1796, but it went unpublished until 1831, when he submitted his ideas to the Royal Society of Gottingen. Gauss introduced the term complex number There are indications that Gauss had been in possession of the geometric representation of complex numbers since 1796, but it went unpublished until 1831, when he submitted his ideas to the Royal Society of Gottingen. Gauss introduced the term complex number
  
-If this subjet has hitherto been considered from the wrong viewpoint and thus enveloped in mystery and surrounded by darkness, it is largely an unsuitable terminology which should be blamed. Had +1, -1 and+<​quote>​If this subjet has hitherto been considered from the wrong viewpoint and thus enveloped in mystery and surrounded by darkness, it is largely an unsuitable terminology which should be blamed. Had +1, -1 and
 √ −1, instead of being √ −1, instead of being
-called positive, negative and imaginary (or worse still, impossible) unity, been given the names say,of direct, inverse and lateral unity, there would hardly have been any scope for such obscurity. +called positive, negative and imaginary (or worse still, impossible) unity, been given the names say,of direct, inverse and lateral unity, there would hardly have been any scope for such obscurity. 
-</​quote>​+</​quote>​</​quote>​
  
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- +just like calculus was re-defined in terms of limits to eliminate "​impossible"​ infinities, so 
-<​quote></​quote><​quote>​http://​www.math.uri.edu/​~merino/​spring06/​mth562/​ShortHistoryComplexNumbers2006.pdf<​/quote> +complex numbers are redefined considering groups and sets ... but this requires a great deal more theory: ​ 
-According ​to [BL. van der Waerden, A History of Algebra, Springer Verlag, NY 1985.], +<​quote></​quote>​http://​www.math.uri.edu/​~merino/​spring06/​mth562/​ShortHistoryComplexNumbers2006.pdf<​quote>​ 
- +Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789-1857) initiated complex function theory in an 1814 memoir 
-<​quote>​Cardano ​was the first to introduce complex numbers a + +submitted ​to the French Acad´emie des SciencesThe term analytic function ​was not 
-√ +mentioned in his memoir, but the concept ​is there. The memoir was published ​in 1825
-−b into +Contour integrals appear in the memoir, but this is not a firstapparently Poisson had 
-algebra, but had misgivings about it.” In Chapter 37 of Ars Magna the following problem +a 1820 paper with a path not on the real line. Cauchy constructed ​the set of complex 
-is posed: “To divide 10 in two parts, the product of which is 40”+numbers in 1847 as R[x]/​(x2 ​1) 
-It is clear that this case is impossible. Neverthelesswe shall work thus: We +<​quote>​We completely repudiate the symbol ​√ 
-divide 10 into two equal parts, making each 5. These we square, making 25. +1abandoning it without regret because 
-Subtract 40, if you will, from the 25 thus produced, as I showed you in the +we do not know what this alleged symbolism signifies nor what meaning 
-chapter ​on operations in the sixth book leaving a remainder of -15, the square +to give to it.
-+
-root of which added to or subtracted from 5 gives parts the product of which is +
-40. These will be 5 √ +
-−15 and 5 − +
-√ +
-15. +
-Putting aside the mental tortures involvedmultiply 5 + √ +
-−15 and 5 − +
-√ +
-−15 +
-making 25 − (−15) which is +15. Hence this product is 40.+
 </​quote></​quote>​ </​quote></​quote>​
 +
 +----
  
 ... from pp2 to top of numbers ... that the ancient pyth, cubis and quadratics are linked here with complex ... from pp2 to top of numbers ... that the ancient pyth, cubis and quadratics are linked here with complex
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