Generation Z will compose 30 percent of the workforce by 2030 — and their after-tax income is expected to reach $2 trillion in the same time frame, according to ...

Real and imaginary: The time-dependent Schrödinger equation formulated using complex numbers. (Courtesy: iStock/piranka) Complex numbers are essential to achieve the most accurate quantum-mechanical ...

Complex numbers simplify other areas of math What do you get for your leap of faith in complex numbers? For one, trigonometry becomes a lot easier.

When you add imaginary numbers and real numbers, the two form complex numbers, which enable physicists to write out quantum equations in simple terms.

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

Just as negative numbers are unnatural in the domain of countable objects, but become perfectly natural as debts in the realm of accounting and as distances to the left of the origin on the number ...