Radices sophisticae, racines imaginaires: The origins of complex numbers in the late Renaissance

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The aim of this chapter is to clarify what is meant by the invention of complex numbers by the Renaissance Italian algebraists Girolamo Cardano and Rafael Bombelli.

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Gavagna, V. (2014). Radices sophisticae, racines imaginaires: The origins of complex numbers in the late Renaissance. In The Art of Science: From Perspective Drawing to Quantum Randomness (pp. 165–190). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02111-9_7

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