A century ago, the strange behavior of atoms and elementary particles led physicists to formulate a new theory of nature. That theory, quantum mechanics, found immediate success, proving its worth ...

Complex numbers seem to have an almost mystical aura surrounding them. Perhaps it’s because of the terminology used for them – for example, they have a ‘real part’ and an ‘imaginary part’, and they ...

Hypercomplex numbers extend the concept of complex numbers by adding additional dimensions to the imaginary part. Instead of points on a two-dimensional plane, they therefore represent points in multi ...

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