The Platform 2 adds a new character, Zamiatin, to the mix, whose obsession with math's imaginary number subtly reveals a lot about his backstory.

For the first time, researchers have seen how light behaves during a mysterious phenomenon called 'imaginary time'. When you shine light through almost any transparent material, the gridlock of ...

Malcontent Wes popped into the comments of our recent post on the mathematical improbability of vampires with a link to a blog post with a great math-vampire analogy: vampires are the imaginary ...

Quantum theory’s prominent use of complex numbers — sums of imaginary and real numbers — was disconcerting to its founders, including physicist Erwin Schrödinger.

Imaginary numbers and complex numbers — that is, numbers that include an imaginary component — are another example of this sort of creative thinking.

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 ...

Chinese scientists have found the strongest evidence yet that imaginary numbers are fundamental to the foundations of quantum physics.

Imaginary numbers are a solution to a very real problem, according to a new study published in Scientific Reports. Two physicists at Argonne National Laboratory offered a way to mathematically ...