Complex numbers Quote by Bernd Sturmfels Download Open image “The only reason that we like complex numbers is that we don't like real numbers.” — Bernd Sturmfels ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Complex numbers Complexes Mathematical Mathematics Numbers Real Reason
In complex numbers you have an imaginary part but in a complex life everything is so very real. — Soumyajit Pal Copy Share Image
Mathematicians enjoy thinking about the simplest possible things, and the simplest possible things are imaginary. — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
There can be very little of present-day science and technology that is not dependent on complex numbers in one way or another. — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
“All things exist in as simple a form as necessity dictates. When a thing is labeled 'complex,' that's just a roundabout way of saying… — A. Lee Martinez Copy Share Image
Humans need simplifications in order to understand almost anything complex. That's one of our basic biases! — Bryan Johnson Copy Share Image
Things that are complex are not useful, Things that are useful are simple. — Mikhail Kalashnikov Copy Share Image
“Imaginary’ universes are so much more beautiful than this stupidly constructed ‘real’ one; and most of the finest products of an applied mathematician’s fancy… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There can be very little of present-day science and technology that is not dependent on complex numbers in one way or another. — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
The whole apparatus of the calculus takes on an entirely different form when developed for the complex numbers. — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
Complete knowledge of the nature of an analytic function must also include insight into its behavior for imaginary values of the arguments. Often the… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
The shortest path between two truths in the real domain passes through the complex domain. — Jacques Hadamard Copy Share Image
Indeed, nowadays no electrical engineer could get along without complex numbers, and neither could anyone working in aerodynamics or fluid dynamics. — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image