A Third Math Topic: Imaginary (or Fake) Numbers

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Kasz216 said:

Gnizmo said:
Math is surprsingly full of numbers that seem to have no real world equivalent. As has been said many times i is very important for various engineering tasks despite it being imaginary. As another fun mind twist: Calculus teaches you how you divide by zero. Once you start getting into the higher level maths you just need to forget everything your teachers have ever taught you.

Which I kinda think is his point.  Then again maybe not since he's 13.

Is math real and perfect?  Or is it a system that is fundamentally wrong but we keep adding stuff to make it work.

They're easy to understand and use in the system we've created Mathmatics... but the question is... are they really "real" with no physical evidence or are they just a modern spacial goo... like the kind that was theorized to move the planets?

How can math be "wrong"? Please explain.

Imaginary numbers weren't added to "make it work", they were added because they work. It also turned out that they're pretty useful.