Absurdity Quote by Augustus De Morgan

“The square root of negative one is the imaginary unit (i)”

— Xxprokiller132xx

That this subject [of imaginary magnitudes] has hitherto been considered from the wrong point of view and surrounded by a mysterious obscurity, is to…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

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

The human brain finds it extremely hard to cope with a new level of abstraction. This is why it was well into the eighteenth…

— Keith Devlin

Analysis does not owe its really significant successes of the last century to any mysterious use of sqrt(-1), but to the quite natural circumstances…

— Leopold Kronecker

Remember, a negative multiplied by a negative is only positive in maths, not in the real world

— Eric Thomas

The imaginary is what tends to become real.

— Andre Breton

Mathematicians enjoy thinking about the simplest possible things, and the simplest possible things are imaginary.

— Paul Lockhart

The distinction between what is real and what is imaginary is not one that can be finely maintained ... all existing thing are ... imaginary.

— Gregg Braden

One might think this means that imaginary numbers are just a mathematical game having nothing to do with the real world. From the viewpoint…

— Stephen Hawking

We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic.

— Susan Jeffers

“The distinction between what is real and what is imaginary is not one that can be finally maintained...all existing things are, in an intelligible…

— Anonymous