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Abstract Mathematology (UH, IS MATH REAL?) with Eugenia Cheng
Ologies with Alie Ward
The Concept of Imaginary Numbers
Mathematicians dislike rules, including the rule that you can't take the square root of a negative number. So they invented imaginary numbers, which exist as abstract concepts. In this world, it doesn't matter what something is, only what it does.
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