Cool! I got my paper in Computer Engineering, so I don't feel too bad about not knowing about him.
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Now I wonder if there are any books from way back when, akin to Silvanus P. Thompson’s “Calculus made easy” but about imaginary numbers.
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They come up in solving certain cubic equations with real roots which made people seriously consider them. 16th century math consisted of someone figuring out how to solve one type of cubic equation and challenging a rival academic to a mathematical duel. http://www.storyofmathematics.com/16th_tartaglia.html …pic.twitter.com/V1FkmrkuxH
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Bearing in mind quaternions date from the 1840s, complex numbers would have had to be enough before that, to be reasonably commonplace then. But I, too, would have guessed later than the 1500s.
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