In spite of their name, “imaginary” numbers are as real as any other numbers, especially when it comes to hunting for lost treasure. For our first Insights puzzle of 2019, let’s go on a treasure hunt.

Complexible is a minimal and user-friendly Rust library for complex-number operations, bringing the joy of complex mathematics to Rustaceans everywhere! Designed with simplicity and ease-of-use in ...

The transition from real to complex numbers marked a significant shift in physics, particularly in quantum mechanics. Recent research has shown that using real numbers in quantum predictions leads to ...

Computer engineers at Duke University have demonstrated that using complex numbers—numbers with both real and imaginary components—can play an integral part in securing artificial intelligence ...

An international team of researchers shows through a concrete theoretical experiment that the prediction by standard complex quantum theory cannot be expressed by its real counterpart and ratifies its ...

Imaginary numbers might seem like unicorns and goblins — interesting but irrelevant to reality. But for describing matter at its roots, imaginary numbers turn out to be essential. They seem to be ...