Negative Numbers make less sense than Complex Numbers
Mathematicians of the past used to struggle a lot with negative numbers. We discuss why in this video.
The idea was adopted from Martin Gardner's book "Penrose tiles to trapdoor ciphers", chapter 11.
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Source code for animations: https://github.com/univalency/Manim-a...
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