There are certainly people who regard √2 as something perfectly obvious but jib at √-1. This is because they think they can visualise the former as something in physical space but not the latter. Actually √-1 is a much simpler concept.
Many of the proofs in mathematics are very long and intricate. Others, though not long, are very ingeniously constructed. - Edward Charles Titchmarsh
Many of the proofs in mathematics are very long and intricate. Others, though not long, are very ingeniously constructed.
- Edward Charles Titchmarsh
I met a man once who told me that far from believing in the square root of minus one, he didn't believe in minus one. This is at any rate a consisten… - Edward Charles Titchmarsh
I met a man once who told me that far from believing in the square root of minus one, he didn't believe in minus one. This is at any rate a consisten…
It can be of no practical use to know that Pi is irrational, but if we can know, it surely would be intolerable not to know. - Edward Charles Titchmarsh
It can be of no practical use to know that Pi is irrational, but if we can know, it surely would be intolerable not to know.
Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising. The rules which we make up at the beginning seem ordinary and inevit… - Edward Charles Titchmarsh
Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising. The rules which we make up at the beginning seem ordinary and inevit…
There are certainly people who regard √2 as something perfectly obvious but jib at √-1. This is because they think they can visualise the former as s… - Edward Charles Titchmarsh
There are certainly people who regard √2 as something perfectly obvious but jib at √-1. This is because they think they can visualise the former as s…
Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising. - Edward Charles Titchmarsh
Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising.
Algebra goes to the heart of the matter at it ignores the casual nature of particular cases. - Edward Charles Titchmarsh
Algebra goes to the heart of the matter at it ignores the casual nature of particular cases.
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