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Understanding Why Complex Multiplication Works

Wednesday 3 August 2011 - Filed under Education

Understanding Why Complex Multiplication Works | BetterExplained.

Seeing imaginary numbers as rotations was one my favorite aha moments:

i, the square root of -1, is a number in a different dimension! Once that clicks, we can use multiplication to “combine” rotations of two complex numbers

2011-08-03  »  bnc

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