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Imaginary Numbers Are Real [Part 1: Introduction]
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The first part of Welch Labs' series on imaginary numbers, presenting them as the natural extension of the number line into two dimensions. It covers the history and the math with strong visuals.
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HN commenters rate the series as some of the best visual teaching on complex numbers and recommend it for building intuition.
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The greatest audiovisual content on the topic I have ever seen: Part 1 - [VIDEO] Part 2 - [LINK] Part 3 - [LINK] Part 4 - [LINK] Part 5 - [LINK] Part 6 - [LINK] Part 7 - [LINK] Part 8 - [LINK] Part 9 - [LINK] Part 10 - [LINK] Part 11 - [LINK] Part 12 - [LINK] Part 13 - [LINK]
Read original comment ↗Welch Labs has a wonderful series on youtube on imaginary numbers, "Imaginary Numbers Are Real": [VIDEO] I like to tell my kids that imaginary numbers aren't really imaginary .. that in many ways they're more real than the Reals.
Read original comment ↗Welch labs has an amazing series on complex numbers called “imaginary numbers are real”. Great explanations, engaging content and high production value. [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗Yes, the name imaginary does it no favours. I was confused for so long about i, as it was never explained on classes, and it wasn't until 3blue1brown and other math youtubers showed me the light. I really like this series on it by Welch Labs - loads of easily digestible videos, and a history lesson to boot: [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗I really enjoyed this video series on imaginary numbers. Went through the history as well as the math: [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗Regarding imaginary numbers, I found this YouTube series really helpful to understand basics of imaginary numbers. [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗I really like the welch labs series on imaginary numbers which covers the first part of what you talk about -- leveling up the notion of what a complex number is. Though his focus was more on solving simple equations with no real roots, but really detailing how/what is really going on. It is a great precursor to then thinking about quaternions [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗I agree that for most of advanced math, VR won't help, however there are a lot of mathematical concepts that are easier to grasp when visualized. [LINK] [VIDEO] [LINK]
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