Mathematicians were disturbed, centuries ago, to find that calculating the properties of certain curves demanded the seemingly impossible: numbers that, when multiplied by themselves, turn negative.

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. An imaginary number is a number that, when squared, has a negative result. Essentially, an ...

It should be impossible to measure an imaginary number in the lab, but a group of researchers have found a way to do so. They produced the equivalent of a magnetic field of imaginary strength, meaning ...

Let the viewer = x, David Colosi writes, introducing his gloriously dense and slyly comic “proof” of God’s manmade existence. Guided by Wittgenstein’s conjecture that one could construct serious ...

Warning! This post contains spoilers for The Platform 2. Zamiatin keeps mentioning the mathematical imaginary number in The Platform 2, making it hard not to wonder what it means and how it reveals ...