Complex and Hyperbolic Numbers

Garret Sobczyk
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Garret Sobczyk: Universidad de Las Américas, Departamento de Física y Matemáticas

Chapter Chapter 2 in New Foundations in Mathematics, 2013, pp 23-42 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The complex numbers were grudgingly accepted by Renaissance mathematicians because of their utility in solving the cubic equation.1 Whereas the complex numbers were discovered primarily for algebraic reasons, they take on geometric significance when they are used to name points in the plane.

Keywords: Hyperbolic Plane; Geometric Algebra; Isotropic Line; Outer Product; Hyperbolic Distance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1007/978-0-8176-8385-6_2

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