Mastodawn

#muddledMaunderings of a doddering fool. Part n/x #CaveatEmptor
#ImaginaryNumbers were the downfall of any hopes I had for a career in science. Algebra was required for a major in any science. You had to not only take it, you had to pass it and my brain just couldn’t do it. Organic chemistry didn’t help either, but I’d already failed algebra twice so I didn’t really put much effort into it, as in studying. But I’ve held onto a broad interest in sciency stuff in general to this day.

rogeliop Jun 23, 2025

I'm not imagining things...

#Math #RealNumbers #ImaginaryNumbers

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Khurram Wadee ✅Jun 13, 2025

Once again, we need to use #EllipticalIntegrals but in an unfamiliar regime where some parameters are #ImaginaryNumbers, (actually, you can just treat the square values as being negative) but you can get exact expressions for the behaviour.

Dan Drake 🦆Apr 29, 2025

Listening to some music. The Algorithm Overlords surfaced this band for me, and I clicked on them because, hey, as a math person, I agree that i is a number:

https://www.youtube.com/@Number_i_official

...and I kinda like 'em!

FWIW, other Japanese bands that I like and think you should check out: Otokobe Beaver; ATARASHII GAKKO (I think all-caps is mandatory?), Wanima, and...some others I don't recall at the moment.

#music #imaginarynumbers #jpop

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Hari Tulsidas Sep 3, 2023

Imaginary numbers are numbers that involve the square root of a negative one. They are not imaginary in the sense of being unreal but rather in the sense of being orthogonal to the real number line . Imaginary numbers have many applications in science, engineering, and mathematics, such as describing rotations, waves, and quantum phenomena.

#Math #ImaginaryNumbers #Science

https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/a-brief-introduction-to-imaginary-numbers?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=HariTulsidas%2Fmagazine%2FMind%20and%20Matter