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Taking a leap of faith into imaginary numbers opens new doors in the real world through complex analysis

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William Ross is a mathematician who studies analysis, an area of math that deals with complex numbers.

Ross : Unlike the more familiar real numbers, fractions, square roots, cube roots and even numbers such as pi have an imaginary component.

He says complex numbers make seemingly impossible integrals easy to solve and measure the area under complex curves.

Complex analysis has many applications to the real world.

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