It turns out that complex numbers are used a lot in everyday math, engineering, electronics, etc. Because it became clear that many researchers were reinventing this wheel quite often, complex numbers ...

It’s creepy, it’s crawly, and it’s still on the prowl near a townhome complex in the west Houston area -- a python that could be up to 15 feet long.

Even mathematical giants found complex numbers difficult to swallow. For one, calling -√1 “imaginary” isn’t doing it any favors in helping people understand that it’s not fantastical.