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Square roots of negative real numbers are not defined yet. We introduce complex numbers to solve this problem. Essentially, we introduce an imaginary number i, the square root of −1, and thereby add a new dimension to the real numbers.
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Mazzola, G., Mannone, M., Pang, Y. (2016). Complex Numbers. In: Cool Math for Hot Music. Computational Music Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42937-3_14
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