Comments by "bruzote" (@bruzote) on "How Imaginary Numbers Were Invented" video.

  1.  @channelsixtysix066  - I gave that a fleeting thought, but didn't buy into it. Maybe I need to revisit that idea. I had always been taught in physics that they represented unmanifested reality. Sorry, but that's not a "real" answer for me. Maybe there is some other way I will find a suitable relief to my being irked by these imaginary numbers.
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  2. When I get frustrated with the notion of imaginary numbers corresponding to the physical universe, and my visible frustration leads another person to ask what's wrong, I reply "The problem, in reality, is nothing. It's all just imaginary."
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  3. For a moment, I felt like the 3-axis Euler's Formula video was helping me to make sense of imaginary numbers. That was a transitory feeling. For me, the spiral in the video shows a CORRELATION, but it does reveal the "nature" of the equation's behavior. IIRC, my earlier eduation on the topic almost 40 years ago was done using infinite series. That showed the exponent series with an imaginary number was the same as the combined series of i*sin and cos or something like that. That was not satisfying for me. either. I feel like Derek's "instruction" is a curse. Divorce your conceptualization from reality and you get the answers describing reality. Yea, well I want things the other way around as well. I want REALITY to DESCRIBE THE ANSWERS. On my deathbed, if there are loved ones around, they hear my last words to be, "Damn you, imaginary numbers! I will see you in hell!" Then they will probably push past the edge with some morphine to put me out of my apparent emotional suffering. You wait, the irony will come full circle as my IMAGINARY future becomes REALITY. Aaaargh!
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