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Abstract Mathematology (UH, IS MATH REAL?) with Eugenia Cheng

Ologies with Alie Ward

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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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