Imaginary Numbers Are Real [Part 1: Introduction]

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    Imaginary numbers are not some wild invention, they are the deep and natural result of extending our number system. Imaginary numbers are all about the discovery of numbers existing not in one dimension along the number line, but in full two dimensional space. Accepting this not only gives us more rich and complete mathematics, but also unlocks a ridiculous amount of very real, very tangible problems in science and engineering.
    Part 1: Introduction
    Part 2: A Little History
    Part 3: Cardan's Problem
    Part 4: Bombelli's Solution
    Part 5: Numbers are Two Dimensional
    Part 6: The Complex Plane
    Part 7: Complex Multiplication
    Part 8: Math Wizardry
    Part 9: Closure
    Part 10: Complex Functions
    Part 11: Wandering in Four Dimensions
    Part 12: Riemann's Solution
    Part 13: Riemann Surfaces
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  • @jalfire
    @jalfire 6 років тому +12917

    thank you Gauss. It sounds much less awkward to say that I have a lateral girlfriend

    • @QED_
      @QED_ 5 років тому +106

      @Jalfire: Me . . . I just keep it to myself and don't mention it to anyone else at all.

    • @ShizL
      @ShizL 5 років тому +45

      so original

    • @alvarogoenaga3965
      @alvarogoenaga3965 5 років тому +171

      @@QED_ lateral girlfriend= mistress

    • @sauceaddict9569
      @sauceaddict9569 5 років тому +13

      Lmfao😂😂

    • @miguelalvesmacedo
      @miguelalvesmacedo 5 років тому +18

      still awkward though

  • @br1lliantplanets643
    @br1lliantplanets643 3 роки тому +1145

    By the way, imaginary numbers ARE called “lateral numbers” in China.
    It could just because it’s easier to pronounce(less syllables in the Chinese language), but Gauss would be proud

    • @morgiewthelord8648
      @morgiewthelord8648 3 роки тому +16

      Very cool

    • @nvitined
      @nvitined 3 роки тому +32

      Well, imaginary numbers in Chinese still has the ‘imaginary’ meaning. It’s called 虛數 I think

    • @masterspark9880
      @masterspark9880 3 роки тому +199

      “The Tiananmen Square protests are lateral”

    • @user-vv1do1wg1j
      @user-vv1do1wg1j 3 роки тому +6

      @@masterspark9880 LMAO

    • @jasonmaguire7552
      @jasonmaguire7552 3 роки тому +3

      @@masterspark9880 legendary

  • @rinfeast3445
    @rinfeast3445 4 роки тому +2421

    its all fun and games in math class until the graph starts speaking 3d

    • @Email5507
      @Email5507 4 роки тому +54

      You will see Fourth Dimension in future, which you will not express or understand in 2d papers like you do 3 dimensional shapes.

    • @lindaday884
      @lindaday884 4 роки тому +2

      be still my heart!

    • @vladymartinez1232
      @vladymartinez1232 4 роки тому +20

      @@Email5507 impossible to understand, impossible to imagine, we can only "speak" about it, i love it!!!!

    • @hybmnzz2658
      @hybmnzz2658 3 роки тому +3

      @@Email5507 stoner 1

    • @hybmnzz2658
      @hybmnzz2658 3 роки тому +3

      @@vladymartinez1232 stoner 2

  • @blazeknight2009
    @blazeknight2009 7 років тому +138

    The presentation of math has never been so fun and interesting like this one here. Kudos to thee. 10/10

    • @WelchLabsVideo
      @WelchLabsVideo  7 років тому +7

      Thank you!

    • @harmitchhabra989
      @harmitchhabra989 5 років тому +2

      @@WelchLabsVideo Keep Making *Great* Videos. And Thank You For Such An *Amazing* Explanation.😀

  • @august_klevberg
    @august_klevberg 5 років тому +2332

    The easiest way to understand negative numbers is by picturing my bank account.. 😔

    • @zekzimbappe5311
      @zekzimbappe5311 5 років тому +24

      And if u don't have any account like me

    • @spartanhead8131
      @spartanhead8131 5 років тому +11

      @@zekzimbappe5311 Watch other peoples poor bank accounts.

    • @bufdud4
      @bufdud4 5 років тому +30

      @@zekzimbappe5311 then that's lateral bank account

    • @umniyahirfan5026
      @umniyahirfan5026 5 років тому +1

      I LOVE YOUUU

    • @Nick-ui9dr
      @Nick-ui9dr 4 роки тому +4

      And mine imaginary numbers. ;)

  • @Kugelschrei
    @Kugelschrei 7 років тому +876

    I never knew I could have that much fun watching a math video, well done.

    • @StormCougarTypeZero
      @StormCougarTypeZero 7 років тому +11

      Standupmaths mang

    • @TomCatFromMA
      @TomCatFromMA 7 років тому +3

      More real world applications would've been nice for us noobs. So, thumbs down.

    • @theviniso
      @theviniso 7 років тому +6

      Numberphile has some cool video too

    • @DoomRater
      @DoomRater 7 років тому +4

      KommentarKanal I knew I was in for a show the minute the video title mentioned imaginary numbers being real. Better Explained already demonstrated how the number line is really a number plane, and how multiplying by /i/ is like rotating rather then scaling or stretching, but seeing it visualized like that made my day.

    • @iOSMinecraft120
      @iOSMinecraft120 7 років тому +3

      Mathologer is cool too :)

  • @maxwellscheinfield6612
    @maxwellscheinfield6612 3 роки тому +39

    I show this first video of the series every single semester that I teach Algebra students about "imaginary" numbers for the first time. Really gets through to them!

    • @JoseVega-td3iw
      @JoseVega-td3iw 5 місяців тому

      I just did the same an hour ago.

  • @samovarmaker9673
    @samovarmaker9673 7 років тому +2026

    Math: If I have two apples, and I give you one, I will have one apple left.
    Finance: If I have two apples, and I give you one, you will have to repay me the apple in full after a set period of time, plus interest which is to be calculated as a percentage rate of the apple divided by the amount of time it took you to repay me the apple in full.

    • @abdulhermiz782
      @abdulhermiz782 7 років тому +60

      Very true indeed.

    • @jimmybelgium
      @jimmybelgium 7 років тому +19

      How do I always see see you? On every geography now video I've seen ur comment and now on math? Holy crap man

    • @pebblepod30
      @pebblepod30 7 років тому +126

      Politics: If I have one apple, and I give you one, everyone will shout & scream that they didnt get one & band together to try to force me to give them apples.

    • @pebblepod30
      @pebblepod30 7 років тому +34

      Economics: I have two apples, I give you one, but few people realize that apples are produced in a farm, and are worried that there isn't enough, and not even Apple farmers seem to know where apples come from (except the Bank of England Apples which plainly stated the truth).
      I'm MMT. A Neoclassical Economist would describe things that I think are not true and responsible for the mess economies are in (because they are run on the assumption that the currency issuer should behave like a currency User, & other things that don't apply anymore to modern money):
      ua-cam.com/video/TDL4c8fMODk/v-deo.html

    • @igamingmp1526
      @igamingmp1526 7 років тому +8

      Finance is math

  • @Dejawolfs
    @Dejawolfs 4 роки тому +4

    this is truly why a lot of people find math difficult to understand. a lot of the names are grotesquely indescriptive. if they had more intuitive names, people would be able to pick things up much quicker, instead of having to first memorize what it means, in addition to learning how it works.

  • @jonkrieger5271
    @jonkrieger5271 7 років тому +313

    Awesome video! I loved that visualization where you pulled the surface out of the flat paper, that was a big WOW moment! I've worked with imaginary numbers a ton, I studied physics in college, but this video still had an affect on deepening my understanding. Excited to watch the rest!

    • @theviniso
      @theviniso 7 років тому +13

      A picture is worth a thousand words

    • @frother
      @frother 7 років тому +14

      What I don't understand about that visualization is that after he pulls the surface out, there are an *infinite* number of roots. I thought he just said that there are exactly as many roots as the degree of the polynomial?

    • @EthanGarcia-n1ov7zi
      @EthanGarcia-n1ov7zi 7 років тому +6

      frother - There actually only two roots. The "infinite" intersection of the 3d parabola to the imaginary plane is actually just the extension of the whole parabola through 3 dimensions (x, y, i ). Two roots can be seen by taking a different "slice" view point along the new dimension parallel to the coordinate plane (3 units above paper). This will give a new coordinate view of the parabola that does indeed intersect at two points.

    • @qorilla
      @qorilla 7 років тому +12

      That's a good point, but it's only a problem with the visualization. In fact there are only two roots.
      The problem is that to really plot the function, we would need 4 dimensions, not just 3, since the input of the function requires 2 dimensions (real and imaginary/lateral) and the output is also a complex number so it would also need 2 dimensions to plot properly. In this visualization they simply didn't plot the imaginary part of the output value of the function, only the real part. And there are indeed infinitely many complex numbers whose square's real part is -1. But for most of them there is a nonzero imaginary part (except for the 2 actual roots, i and -i).

    • @frother
      @frother 7 років тому +4

      Thanks, I never expected to get such a clear and helpful answer from the youtube comments!

  • @speedsystem4582
    @speedsystem4582 5 місяців тому +1

    Here again, after a few years. Just wanted to let you know that, watching this was definitely one of the most memorable moments in my math journey. I got a whole lot more interested in Graphs and Complex Numbers, learnt to accept them as a concept that weirdly works.

  • @nuklearboysymbiote
    @nuklearboysymbiote 4 роки тому +134

    euler: -1 > ∞
    He predicted integer overflow

    • @xwqkislayer7117
      @xwqkislayer7117 4 роки тому +4

      Can you specify what integer overflow is? I'm sorry I dont know lol.

    • @nuklearboysymbiote
      @nuklearboysymbiote 4 роки тому +36

      @@xwqkislayer7117 in computer systems, if a number is too big to be stored, it loops back to a negative number
      example: Let's say we have a binary system that can store 8 numbers: 000, 001, 010, 011, 100, 101, 110, 111
      If we want to represent negative numbers, it makes sense to put them before the positive ones, so let's say:
      000 = -4
      001 = -3
      010 = -2
      011 = -1
      100 = 0
      101 = 1
      110 = 2
      111 = 3
      so the biggest number we can represent is 3. If we had another digit, we could have:
      1000 = 4
      But we don't. So if we tried to ”add 1” to our 3, it would be:
      111 + 1 = (1)000
      so our system would see 000 and think it is -4
      This is integer overflow, when we don't have enough digits to represent big numbers which causes a mistake that turns it negative.

    • @xwqkislayer7117
      @xwqkislayer7117 4 роки тому +5

      @@nuklearboysymbiote Thanks I didnt know that lol

    • @nuklearboysymbiote
      @nuklearboysymbiote 4 роки тому +23

      @@xwqkislayer7117 i simplified it a little bit to get the idea across, please keep in mind this is not exactly how computers represent numbers. computers are actually built to represent negative numbers using a thing called two's complement: if you have a positive number, flip all the digits, then add 1, that will be how you represent its negative.
      This way, we can actually represent 0 as 000
      e.g.: 2 is represented as 010
      so to get -2, you do 101 + 001 = 110
      this way, you can add the individual digits to get 0 back:
      2 + (-2) = 0
      010 + 110 = (1)000
      The maths is easier this way. That also makes it easier to recognise which numbers are negative, as the first digit will be 1 if it's negative, and 0 if it's positive (-2 = 110, +2 = 010)

    • @xwqkislayer7117
      @xwqkislayer7117 4 роки тому +5

      @@nuklearboysymbiote ah ok ill keep that in mind. Thanks for the info

  • @googleyoutubechannel8554
    @googleyoutubechannel8554 Рік тому +1

    Alternately, a better way to think about it is that no mathematical systems are 'real' in that they are necessary to describe physical observations, they're all models we made up, imaginary numbers are just a useful extension to one system of math that allows us to describe a certain system of useful relationships a fairly compact way.

  • @dominikscherer1882
    @dominikscherer1882 4 роки тому +48

    This is one of the best explanations I heard about anything. Incredibly well done and "easy" to understand! I wish they could teach at university or school like this :/

  • @MartinMadsen92
    @MartinMadsen92 8 років тому +13

    It's an (uncommon) misconception that Euler "didn't know what to do with negatives". Euler was the most productive mathematician to ever have lived. He dealt with complex numbers and complex functions in full generality, it is simply nonsense to say that he didn't know what to do with negative numbers. (It is true that he assigned negative values to some positive (divergent) series, but that was 100 % intentional.)

  • @weili9349
    @weili9349 4 роки тому +2

    1:47, it seems the solution to x^2+1=0 is a curve (or two) instead of 2 point (+i and -i). actually x is in 2 dimensional plane, so is f(x). so it requires 4 dimensional to show the function.

  • @quantumsmith371
    @quantumsmith371 9 років тому +6

    never stop doing these videos they are the best out there. thank you so much for taking the time to share them. with us.

  • @ElVerdaderoAbejorro
    @ElVerdaderoAbejorro 7 років тому +36

    "Numbers are lame. Let's invade something!" - LMAO! Subscribed! =D

  • @Apreche
    @Apreche Рік тому

    I "learned" imaginary numbers at some point in school, very briefly. But I never truly understood them. You managed to do a better job in 5 minutes of UA-cam video than 20+ years of education. Finally I truly get it, and it's not even hard. Completely demystified, like a great cloud has been lifted. You are a legend.

  • @dalitas
    @dalitas 7 років тому +87

    you should change the text of "0!" to just "0" or "0." since 0!=1

    • @WelchLabsVideo
      @WelchLabsVideo  7 років тому +13

      Word.

    • @leonardoaielotassi1114
      @leonardoaielotassi1114 7 років тому +3

      Welch Labs 0!=0, 1!=1, 2!=2, 3!=6; no?

    • @dalitas
      @dalitas 7 років тому +30

      Leonardo Aielo Tassi nope, 0!=1
      One way of seeing it is by thinking that the factorial function tells us how we can order stuff, A&B can be ordered {AB} and {BA} 2!=2
      {A}gives just one "{A}" (1!=1)
      And the empty set { ø } can be ordered in one way {ø} 0!=1

    • @grahamlyons8522
      @grahamlyons8522 7 років тому +7

      Dalitas D
      WOW! A totally unexpected but revelatory and logical answer.

    • @want-diversecontent3887
      @want-diversecontent3887 7 років тому +1

      Graham Lyons
      x! = x * (x-1)!
      If 0! = 0
      Then
      1! = 1 * 0! = 1 * 0 = 0

  • @GroovingPict
    @GroovingPict 7 років тому +120

    When you "pull" the graph up and make it three dimensional, then yes it crosses the X axis, but it suddenly looks like it crosses it in a lot more places than just 2... and it should only be 2. So I dont think that 3d model was a good representation

    • @chocolatethunderific
      @chocolatethunderific 7 років тому +5

      yeah, that's what i was thinking

    • @xheralt
      @xheralt 7 років тому +62

      The actual function values would be the outermost edge of the shape, the actual extension of the plotted line, not the interior area. Which would be a _different_ but related function (probably involving calculus). It was filled in only to provide visual context for us viewers.

    • @johnstotz3800
      @johnstotz3800 7 років тому +14

      Wait for the last part. He explains this specific issue.

    • @kuladeeparun
      @kuladeeparun 7 років тому +2

      The exact point is mentioned in the workbook, take a look at it.

    • @nikhilprasad3947
      @nikhilprasad3947 7 років тому +5

      Actually, this is a prank video by some jerk, cuz for the eq f(x)=x²+1, we are working with only 2 dimensions. Where the hell did you get the 3rd dimension from ? so for every question, just simply add another dimension if can't solve it?

  • @_Killkor
    @_Killkor 5 років тому +220

    21st century: "let's call them fake numbers"
    22nd century: "flat numbers, because Earth is flat, so is everything"
    23rd century: "Numbers are individuals too! Each number should have a name! Isn't that right, Richard?; *-3:* _Yes._ "

    • @gdash6925
      @gdash6925 4 роки тому +7

      Every number has already an own name. So your theoretical statement makes no sense.

    • @fractal5764
      @fractal5764 4 роки тому +14

      25 Century: numbers get to choose their gender.

    • @_Killkor
      @_Killkor 4 роки тому +14

      @@gdash6925 No, my 3 is called Richard. Your 3 is called, I believe, Timothy. Your statement is so numberist.

    • @gdash6925
      @gdash6925 4 роки тому +3

      @@_Killkor my 69 is called..... wait

    • @want-diversecontent3887
      @want-diversecontent3887 4 роки тому +1

      Microsoft Hites
      26 century: Numbers become humans.

  • @thatguybob6088
    @thatguybob6088 4 роки тому +3

    I kinda miss when I was a kid and these parts of math seemed absolutely baffling. They're still amazing, and there are still of course very mysterious areas of math, but learning these things for the first time was like learning magic

  • @pewpewdragon4483
    @pewpewdragon4483 7 років тому +8

    @5:15 we needed students to know things like negative numbers so they can understand what debt is

  • @willywalter6366
    @willywalter6366 3 роки тому +5

    AWESOME : Watched the whole serie! THIS was the best and most intuitive explanation of number theory and complex number ever, where also math newbies could follow and get a deep understanding! Thank you soo much was this highly entertaining and educative masterpiece! ❤️👍🏻💡 that was a tremendous effort of work and brain you put into it! 😇

  • @GraveUypo
    @GraveUypo 7 років тому +88

    you were really bad at sticking to your guns. lateral numbers lasted like 30 seconds

    • @ent8411
      @ent8411 6 років тому +1

      Where my doom fans at?

  • @hersirirminsul
    @hersirirminsul 4 роки тому +4

    Thank you so much! 'Imaginary' numbers were my big stumbling block in A level maths, and my maths teacher was unable to explain them (because he only got the job for being the headmaster's old chum). This video has a made it clear for the first time to me. If only my maths teacher had explained it as another dimension like this, instead of "You don't need to know how it works, just memorise how to use it to pass your exam". I might have passed that A level and become an astrophysicist as I wanted.

    • @tomjscott
      @tomjscott 2 роки тому

      No, don't go there. You were a rational human being before when you couldn't understand imaginary numbers. You actually knew intuitively that it was all a load of garbage and just fantasy. Now you've come to accept them as real when they aren't. Go back to the light.

    • @epicmarschmallow5049
      @epicmarschmallow5049 Рік тому

      ​@@tomjscott They're demonstrably real. Physicists have demonstrated that our most fundamental powerful theories of reality only work when using complex numbers. They're as real as any other number system; to assert otherwise is ignorance

  • @marloncastro5629
    @marloncastro5629 Рік тому +9

    so my imaginary friend was real?

  • @JoseAngelMorente
    @JoseAngelMorente 7 років тому +54

    Dude, no maths in the Medieval Europe? What about Fibonacci and Oresme?

    • @billkillernic
      @billkillernic 7 років тому +16

      Fibonacci was counting breeding rabbits

    • @brianjohns4912
      @brianjohns4912 7 років тому +26

      Or possibly he was breeding counting rabbits... ;-)

    • @NourMuhammad
      @NourMuhammad 7 років тому

      You need to read more about the history of the civilizations in this era and see where was the math around the world around that time and before!!!

    • @billkillernic
      @billkillernic 7 років тому

      Muhammad Nour Elmogy and you need to learn better english before you comment on something... the guy asks about european mathematicians in the middle ages...

    • @NourMuhammad
      @NourMuhammad 7 років тому +4

      Bill Killernic What's wrong with my English !!!!, My Answer was more generic for his exclamation, have you read my comment properly?! or you just commented without even bother reading it!! have you even read his comment!! you need to have more wide open sight for other's comments, I am sure you misunderstood my comment or his or both! and BTW I was confirming the phrase and emphasizing it, medieval Europe didn't have much until it's late years and after that a lot have changed, read the history for your own good and you will know (if you were searching and reading in the right places) how far was Europe in this era and before from anything related to something called science!

  • @factsheet4930
    @factsheet4930 8 років тому +7

    Welp... negative numbers appear in a lot of formulas in physics, that DO describe the real world :P
    the earliest you would see negatives is with charges, we use the negative sign to describe the opposite charge to what we call the positive charge c:
    same with complex numbers in quantum mechanics!

  • @adilisimon6184
    @adilisimon6184 6 місяців тому

    Honestly this is the most important video out there explaining imaginary numbers. This has to be archived in museums for generations to come. Thank you very much for the important work!

  • @Levfomin
    @Levfomin 4 роки тому +6

    I could happily be studying for this now!

  • @FahadAlam
    @FahadAlam 7 років тому +6

    Gauss's way of thinking is pretty cool

  • @monbrianturing7399
    @monbrianturing7399 2 роки тому +1

    Because of the new video posted by Veritasium, a lot of videos about imaginary number are being recommended to me.

  • @julesverne6287
    @julesverne6287 9 років тому +4

    1 minute in, can't wait for the next part!
    Nicely Done :D

  • @madgepickles
    @madgepickles Місяць тому

    Wow, when you pulled that 3rd dimension plane up that graphic was incredible! I still don't fully understand **why that plane is the √-1** but this is the first video I've found that put the context of **what √-1 is functioning as** instead of just stating **that i=√-1** with no context

  • @mizzyforeverg6452
    @mizzyforeverg6452 4 роки тому +22

    Me: well, math isnt even that bad, atleast it all makes sense.
    Teacher: today were gonna learn about imaginary numbers.
    Me: 就能5得到的确有

  • @ablobofgarbage
    @ablobofgarbage Рік тому

    I remember find this series years ago, it made me think of complex and imaginary numbers as completely natural and not strange at all, i want to thank you for being such a great teacher!

    • @WelchLabsVideo
      @WelchLabsVideo  Рік тому +1

      Thank you!!

    • @ojkwame
      @ojkwame Рік тому

      @@WelchLabsVideo Hello, please I think this is an amazing video but I would love if you could include the resources where you found all this info so people can do further reading . Thanks

  • @igxniisan6996
    @igxniisan6996 3 роки тому +2

    4:51, Nah, not the anti apple, it simply means *"I was supposed to lose one more apple if I had it"* in the real world.
    And well, we live in a 3rd dimension which is a "real dimension", so for us to practically visualise a negative apple would be impossible.. imagine if there were negative and lateral dimensions :)

  • @katerynajastrebowa6769
    @katerynajastrebowa6769 2 роки тому +1

    Love the visuals you created, makes things so clear! Thank you!

  • @theboombody
    @theboombody 4 роки тому +4

    If there's one thing that's more incorrectly named than imaginary numbers, it's the fundamental theorem of algebra.

    • @theboombody
      @theboombody 3 роки тому

      @Mariana Duque It's not really that fundamental to algebra. It probably should be called the fundamental theorem of complex roots.

  • @ranjanikamble260
    @ranjanikamble260 8 місяців тому

    Thank you sir❤ it was very helpful to visualise the things... the efforts you took to make these videos was really appreciable ❤... I wish u make some more visualisation vedios on math🥰

  • @NN-vw6ni
    @NN-vw6ni 6 років тому +5

    X^2 + 1 is a polynomial?
    What’s a polynomial?

    • @restitutororbis964
      @restitutororbis964 6 років тому +2

      N N Oh boy here we go. Practically anything that contains a series of variables or variable to a certain "degree" or power. Thats the def. in my own words, if you want a more broad explanation do some research.

    • @Blox117
      @Blox117 5 років тому +1

      i think its a type of plastic made of numbers but i could be wrong

  • @Anonymoususer6541
    @Anonymoususer6541 3 роки тому +4

    4:53 the anti apple haha hahaahahaaa...😅

  • @riderlife8968
    @riderlife8968 3 роки тому +1

    한글자막도 있어서 너무 잘 보고 있습니다. 이곳에 항상 축복만이 가득하시길.... 감사합니다.

  • @fuseteam
    @fuseteam 6 років тому +12

    if we call "imaginary" numbers "lateral", what do we call "real" numbers?
    also why didn't you stick to your convention to call them "lateral"?

    • @seby-yt
      @seby-yt 6 років тому +2

      non-lateral numbers? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    • @fuseteam
      @fuseteam 6 років тому

      since "lateral" seems derived for "latitude" i was think more a derived term form "longitude" 😂

    • @want-diversecontent3887
      @want-diversecontent3887 6 років тому

      Fuseteam
      Direct + Inverse, I guess.
      Gauss didn't say anything other than those.

    • @fuseteam
      @fuseteam 6 років тому

      we don't have to ask Gauss, are we not imaginative ourselves? 🙃
      the first that comes to mind when i hear "lateral" is latitude, which is also used on maps in terms of latitude and longitude for example so "longitudinal"? feels clunky but surely there is a word that would show the relation between the two, since that was the intention of gauss calling them "direct, inverse and lateral"

    • @veyselyazici
      @veyselyazici 5 років тому

      You can call the real numbers as Johnny if you want. I wouldn't mind at all.

  • @JB_inks
    @JB_inks 3 роки тому +2

    2:42 I find it most disagreeable you write G as 6

  • @cathedrale908
    @cathedrale908 7 років тому +58

    i never understand why people want to have real things in maths. Everything is abstract, wether it is real numbers ( which is not a proper name), an imaginary number, a function, a polynomial, a ring, a field, nothing is "real", it only exists in our mind

    • @adriansilva1434
      @adriansilva1434 6 років тому +8

      Agree. Math is abstract but it works!!!

    • @Banzybanz
      @Banzybanz 6 років тому +1

      True. Imaginary numbers are no more imaginary than rational or irrational numbers.

    • @Nothing_serious
      @Nothing_serious 6 років тому +6

      That's because modern views and traditional views are different. Times changed and so does ideas of people. Back then, math was heavily grounded to reality. Hell there wasn't even algebra back then and solving math problems mostly involved geometry.

    • @gopalsivethna2959
      @gopalsivethna2959 6 років тому +6

      Math wasn’t abstract back then. It was used to explain reality and solve real problems as the video outlined. They had no idea of the applications of negative numbers because they were new and didn’t exist.

    • @VioletGiraffe
      @VioletGiraffe 6 років тому +3

      I would say quite otherwise: in math (or within math, if you will), everything that's not self-contradictory (and not in conflict with other math established so far) is real.

  • @DavidDragonstar123
    @DavidDragonstar123 6 років тому +39

    Negative numbers connect very well with the real world. The answer is one simple world, relativity.
    x = 50 meters
    y = x - 100 meters
    Where is y relative to x?
    -50 meters
    GG EZ

    • @DajesOfficial
      @DajesOfficial 6 років тому +3

      Where is a negative direction in the real world?

    • @t3leming4ate47
      @t3leming4ate47 6 років тому +21

      Lol, negative numbers in physics mean the opposite direction for direction quantms. Good try tho.

    • @rabbitdrink
      @rabbitdrink 5 років тому

      @@DajesOfficial the opposite of a positive direction, if x units in front of you then -x, x units to the left = -x units to the right, x units up = -x units down

    • @nandakoryaaa
      @nandakoryaaa 5 років тому +4

      y relative to x is -100 meters :)

    • @dude861
      @dude861 5 років тому +1

      @@nandakoryaaa exactly... what a fail of him :D

  • @Wallyisking
    @Wallyisking Рік тому

    The beauty of the imaginary number is that it proves science and even math are based on the definitions of an observer. i has many applications but so too does quantum mechanics exist as a discipline. It amazes me to see that these two are not often, if ever, discussed in the same sentence. Humans apply so many things in binary terms (one vs another) that the imaginary number seems more an artifact of a fractured hive mind than a prerequisite for understanding the cosmos.

  • @muhamadhamdy6576
    @muhamadhamdy6576 7 років тому +35

    Numbers are lame, let's just invade something. HAHAHAHHHHHHHHHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

    • @achi5170
      @achi5170 7 років тому

      May be Poland

    • @rodrigolara6733
      @rodrigolara6733 6 років тому

      Lol what?

    • @abdallah.alammar
      @abdallah.alammar 6 років тому

      ترجم لنا ايش قلت لهم ؟

    • @jigoku2359
      @jigoku2359 6 років тому

      a benzene molecule but muslim arabs invented algebra

    • @1234vedas
      @1234vedas 6 років тому

      +Poison Cake algebra was even before

  • @Marksman560
    @Marksman560 5 років тому +33

    I like to call them multi-dimensional numbers :D

  • @MoMadNU
    @MoMadNU 2 роки тому

    This touches on a theory i've had for a while now which is that the Cartesian system limits our ability to solve problems since by design it's linear. What if we were to make the x and y axis non-linear functions? For example, if a coordinate system was based on a parabola, then a plot of a parabola would appear as a straight line.

    • @austintexas6392
      @austintexas6392 2 роки тому

      Yes, I actually had an exam last year with a question that required to do exactly that, there are lots of types of coordinate spaces for different problems.

  • @MichaelJordan-iu2ym
    @MichaelJordan-iu2ym 3 роки тому +4

    I am tripping RN, but i cannot be the first to notice how lovely his voice is

  • @PuffleBuns
    @PuffleBuns 3 роки тому +1

    I never realized how important negative numbers were.
    Then I checked my bank balance. :')

  • @henrypagkaliwagan5868
    @henrypagkaliwagan5868 2 роки тому

    Thaks bro .im so tired to research in several month how to understand asyntope.but now 👍,your the best explanator

  • @peeneo
    @peeneo 5 років тому +13

    Medieval Europe whitout Maths? Are you serious? I think it's absurd as so many people try to describe the Medieval age as the age of darkness.This is the work of modernist ideology.

    • @stabiljka
      @stabiljka 5 років тому +3

      As is the bashing of the name "imaginary". It's pretty good name for those numbers and I don't see how is it confusing. You do need more imagination to perceive them, than say, natural numbers

    • @666Tomato666
      @666Tomato666 3 роки тому

      yeah, we lost the knowledge how to make concrete for nearly half a century, but do tell me about this period of unparalleled scientific development /s

  • @nexigram
    @nexigram Рік тому

    Some things never change. Even hundreds of years ago it was apparently a meme that mathematicians are the worst at naming things, as per Gauss and his, “ill adapted notation,” quote.

  • @fastslow1672
    @fastslow1672 3 роки тому +2

    At 1:45 how to do this animation? what tools, please? somebody knows?

  • @jimhenderson2308
    @jimhenderson2308 2 роки тому

    Negative numbers are still abstract even when the duality of nature is considered as in positive and electric charge. The abstraction is in the recognition of a sign convention applied to measurement.

  • @venkybabu8140
    @venkybabu8140 Рік тому

    When you have a string with beads of some size. There is a point beyond which the beads have to bend to get out of line. Imaginary are such strings attached. Why they bend at two is because they occupy parallelism. Parallelism is quite common planar vectors. Even charge shows parellelism.

  • @tranthaptinh
    @tranthaptinh 4 роки тому

    I LIKE YOU I LIKE THE WAY YOU TEACHING IMAGINARY NUMBERS ...... FIRST INSTANT GIVING THE IDEAS TO UNDERSTAND IMAGINARY NUMBERS ................

  • @woowooNeedsFaith
    @woowooNeedsFaith 6 років тому +4

    @0:05 That is not a nice parabola. It is pointy.

    • @QED_
      @QED_ 5 років тому

      @woowooNeedsFaith: LOL. If you don't have any imagination . . . then this video is obviously not for you.

    • @TheGuruNetOn
      @TheGuruNetOn Місяць тому +1

      pointy is good. it scares people.

  • @burgundy0110
    @burgundy0110 3 роки тому

    This is helpful for my brother who's mid school students.

  • @KuraSourTakanHour
    @KuraSourTakanHour 4 роки тому

    It's a cool concept of a category of numbers that basically have the reverse properties of "normal" numbers. I learned multiplying 2 negative i together the answer is still negative, which is the essential feature for the square root of -1 to be possible
    What crazy other categories of numbers will be possible?

  • @mephistophelesfussli819
    @mephistophelesfussli819 6 років тому +4

    Fun fact: Imaginary time is equivalent to temperature.

  • @r.markweger3907
    @r.markweger3907 4 роки тому

    Well the question is if even Negative Number are real, or if they are just a summary of rules and methods.
    And the Complex Numbers (or Imaginary Numbers) just a method to overcome situations where the rules for Negative Numbers do not work.

  • @IHWKR
    @IHWKR 7 років тому +7

    my favorite imaginary number has always been -0

    • @Aquaified
      @Aquaified 7 років тому +1

      aeroman5000 the fuck are you talking about? -0 isn't a thing you moron.

    • @IHWKR
      @IHWKR 7 років тому +6

      This video is about IMAGINARY NUMBERS so I mentioned my favorite IMAGINARY NUMBER you dip shit. Your not the brightest black crayon in the box.

    • @heimdall1973
      @heimdall1973 7 років тому +1

      -0 is the same as 0. It lies on the imaginary axis, so it is imaginary. It is real at the same time. Also, try to ask and answer questions without swearing and insults.

    • @IHWKR
      @IHWKR 7 років тому +1

      You should mention that to aquaified before mentionioning insults to me as if it wasn't for his response mine would have been different. Did you even read their comment? .....😧

    • @Aquaified
      @Aquaified 7 років тому

      aeroman5000 dude, did you watch the video? Imaginary numbers aren't some made up thing, they are specific and useful numbers. -0 means exactly the same thing as 0, there is no negation to 0.

  • @EvTheFlickFan
    @EvTheFlickFan Рік тому

    Title: Imaginary Numbers Are Real
    My Brain: Stops Working

  • @huseyinsar4939
    @huseyinsar4939 4 роки тому

    Videoyu izleyince anladım ki , bizlere liselerde üniversitelerde matematik öğreten hocalarımız sadece ezberlemiş ve ezberlerini anlatmışlar. Anladıkları sanmışlar ve farkında olmadan sadece ezberlemişler ki bize de böyle altı boş bir şekilde anlatmışlar. Yıllardır bildiğimi sandığım şeyler oysaki 1 adet görselle ne kadar da yanlış bildiğimi fark ettim. Thank you for this video.

  • @effexon
    @effexon 3 роки тому

    That animation @01:41 , my mind just blown , maths hasnt been like this.

  • @sayonmondal3454
    @sayonmondal3454 5 років тому +15

    -1» infinity
    Pythogoras And Archimedes wants to know your location.
    Sorry I don't have a greater than sign... I have a double greater than sign lol 😂😂😂

  • @nuclearcatapult
    @nuclearcatapult 2 місяці тому

    Good video. At 1:56 please don't put exclamation marks after numbers in math videos. I read that as 0 factorial and was confused for a minute.

  • @swedishpsychopath8795
    @swedishpsychopath8795 5 місяців тому +1

    How did he graph the two dimensional graph in 3d space when there is no z-component in the 2d function expression?

  • @buckanderson8194
    @buckanderson8194 4 роки тому +5

    Infinity is an imaginary number that's impossible to imagine.

    • @Nick-ui9dr
      @Nick-ui9dr 4 роки тому

      Its not a number that u can imagine or not imagine it denotes a limit condition I guess.
      So is 0 in a sense (particular mindset)... its not number but a condition that denote simply absense condition....so does negative numbers has some not so clearly define boundaries....for me at least as of now. Till we dont go into power stuff it real its behave just consistently with other normal concepts but just as soon as we step into power domain it becomes imaginary.... Had -2 x -3 been = -6 instead of +6 ..underoot of -4 wud just have been -2 I suppose not a imaginary stuff. But then why is -2 x -3 a plus 6 ..is the question. Why it had to be like that?
      I think I need to retake primary school maths classes again. :)

  • @nadroj-88
    @nadroj-88 4 роки тому +8

    So does that mean my imaginary girlfriend is real?
    Jk I don’t have one but I had to make this comment.

    • @jorgepeterbarton
      @jorgepeterbarton 3 роки тому

      Yes. It just means she is a negative debt and lacking a dimension idk.

  • @gerardomangione3.049
    @gerardomangione3.049 4 роки тому

    Traducción de Lo que dijo Gauss para mis hermanos latinos.....yo si deseo tenerlos en cuenta 🤬
    "que este tema haya estado rodeado hasta ahora por una misteriosa oscuridad debe atribuirse en gran parte a una notación mal adaptada. Si, por ejemplo, 1, -1 y la raíz cuadrada de -1 se hubieran llamado unidades directas, inversas y laterales, en lugar de positivas, negativas e imaginarias (o incluso imposibles), tal oscuridad habría estado fuera de discusión."

  • @aizaimran947
    @aizaimran947 4 роки тому +1

    but doesnt that animation prove that imaginary numbers are in the second dimension, when what we've been taught is that complex numbers are two dimensional?

  • @theking2000
    @theking2000 11 місяців тому +1

    Thank God for this video I was going crazy all this time thinking I was jus “imagining” that imaginary numbers was jus a part of my imagination 😂😂😂😂

  • @NaimishBaranwal
    @NaimishBaranwal 6 років тому +8

    Hence it proved there are muti-dimensions in world.

    • @salsamancer
      @salsamancer 5 років тому +3

      How does it prove that? Because of some arbitrary word choice in a conceptual logic language that people invented?

  • @hinkles73
    @hinkles73 4 роки тому

    My 9-year-old son could pretend to be a cowboy before he watched this video, but now he can't wear hats because it made his brain expand too much.

  • @MrIlnyapasdepommes
    @MrIlnyapasdepommes 5 років тому +5

    can I use this to teach my kids? Haha kidding, I wouldn't put children in this cruel world :P

  • @heberfrank8664
    @heberfrank8664 7 місяців тому

    Like we invented a numeral for zero, we can invent a numeral that equals minus one. Call it X. An example is a special base 3 that uses X,0 and 1. We can develop all math functions using these digits. An advantage is that we never need to use the minus sign. If the first digit is X we know it is negative. Of course humans will not want to use this system, but computers might. Is there an advantage to never having to deal with the minus sign?

  • @mr.professor9066
    @mr.professor9066 4 роки тому

    This video is amazing. Keep it up sir

  • @MarinoMatthews
    @MarinoMatthews 3 роки тому

    How did I get through two years of Algebra without being taught the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra? Our school curriculums are bizarre to say the least

  • @igxniisan6996
    @igxniisan6996 3 роки тому +1

    4:58, well it's true tho... -ve is indeed greater then infinity..
    We all know that, 1+2+3+4+...∞ = -1/12
    :)))
    Well I think, in imaginary plane, all the numbers make an infinitely big circle, where after infinity, at somewhere transitions to -infinity and keeps moving forward approaching "0" and then enters the +ve numbers again, thus it all has a connection, so his point of view wasn't wrong tho :)))
    I maybe wrong, it's just my imagination.. imagining is good ;o
    (Btw that 1+2+3+..∞ = -1/12 is true tho..)

  • @crochetbitznknits2066
    @crochetbitznknits2066 Рік тому

    This was a really interesting video, thank you😊

  • @jonas1856
    @jonas1856 3 роки тому +1

    WHY ARE THERE ARROWS IN BOTH DIRECTION OF THE AXIS

  • @picklerick3459
    @picklerick3459 Рік тому

    Great video! But, number 0 was first used by Aryabhatta- Indian mathematician. “Sunya” or zero was found in Hindu scriptures before 1 B.C.

  • @krns1695
    @krns1695 2 роки тому +2

    who else stopped understading at 00:00

  • @drjacquesduplessis6299
    @drjacquesduplessis6299 2 роки тому

    Brilliantly animated and Interesting

  • @Feisty_Fidel
    @Feisty_Fidel 4 роки тому

    Thank! Now i can visualise complex numbers more effectively

  • @SimonFrank369
    @SimonFrank369 Рік тому +1

    I´m not quite sure, if Euler indeed did not get the negative numbers done, or if it´s rather you who hasn´t fully comprehended the depth of Euler´s Identity yet!?
    ;-)

    • @growtocycle6992
      @growtocycle6992 Рік тому

      Or conveniently applying part of a theorem outside of the appropriate context to prove his point

  • @starivuk3052
    @starivuk3052 4 роки тому

    Are you sure the fundamental theorem of algebra says that? What if f(x)=x^5+1, n would be 5 but we wouldn't have 5 roots, we would have only 1.

  • @VNV2018
    @VNV2018 Рік тому

    These guys will say anything to make a catchy title.

  • @AfomiyaGashuMulu
    @AfomiyaGashuMulu Рік тому +1

    I love imaginary numbers 🔢. Great work

  • @masterstealth11
    @masterstealth11 6 років тому +4541

    “We’ll be using the term lateral from now on”
    *continues to say imaginary*

  • @Black_Kakari
    @Black_Kakari 5 років тому +3997

    Brah, he pulled a rainbow out of his paper.
    Drugs

  • @billcannon
    @billcannon 8 років тому +3945

    You delighted me with the 3D lateral-plane visualization. Well done.

  • @aTomallic
    @aTomallic 2 роки тому +1027

    I remember a time where I was joking around with my algebra 1B teacher;
    "Hey it's kind of wacky that the calculator responds no real numbers does that imply the existence of imaginary numbers?"
    "Yes."
    I cannot describe the internal panic I had at the idea of seemingly non-existent numbers.

    • @hareecionelson5875
      @hareecionelson5875 Рік тому +54

      Yo, that's a kick in the discovery, I wish I had thought of that before when I was taught about the set of all real numbers

    • @whatname3676
      @whatname3676 Рік тому +4

      Wait, calculators don't respond real numbers?

    • @deleted-something
      @deleted-something Рік тому +1

      Rip

    • @the_demon149
      @the_demon149 Рік тому +44

      Something similar happened to me lol. And then the teacher just breezed right by it! It was mid lesson, and she was just like “Oh yeah numbers that don’t exist exist, but that’s high school stuff, anyway…”

    • @john-ic5pz
      @john-ic5pz Рік тому +11

      ​@@the_demon149so sad they didn't digress for a minute. minds are open far before H.S....perhaps more so