Description: In this math tutorial I will show you how to write a complex number in standard form after simple operations have been performed. You will learn how to find the value of real and ...

In this video series I show you how to write complex numbers in standard form. We use the idea of imaginary numbers to higher powers to simplify and then write the expression in complex number form.

The square root of a negative number could easily be regarded as a curious mathematical construction that has little bearing on real life. Indeed, the French polymath René Descartes gave such numbers ...

Have you ever sat in a math classroom and wondered, “When will I ever use this?” You might have asked yourself this question when you first encountered “imaginary” numbers, and with good reason: What ...

Several years ago one of us, Toni, asked another of us, Marco, to come to his office at the Institute of Photonic Sciences, a large research center in Castelldefels near Barcelona. “There is a problem ...