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. — Edward Charles Titchmarsh Copy Share Image
There are certainly people who regard √2 as something perfectly obvious but jib at √-1. This is because they think they can visualise the… — Edward Charles Titchmarsh Copy Share
Algebra goes to the heart of the matter at it ignores the casual nature of particular cases. — Edward Charles Titchmarsh Copy Share
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… — Edward Charles Titchmarsh Copy Share
Many of the proofs in mathematics are very long and intricate. Others, though not long, are very ingeniously constructed. — Edward Charles Titchmarsh Copy Share
Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising. — Edward Charles Titchmarsh Copy Share
It can be of no practical use to know that Pi is irrational, but if we can know, it surely would be intolerable not… — Edward Charles Titchmarsh Copy Share
Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising. The rules which we make up at the beginning seem ordinary… — Edward Charles Titchmarsh Copy Share
