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complex plane

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noun

Mathematics.
  1. a plane the points of which are complex numbers.


Etymology

Origin of complex plane

First recorded in 1905–10


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Sure, startups can and do disrupt established industries, but manufacturing such a complex plane on budget and on time to keep down the price per passenger requires more than entrepreneurial brashness.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 22, 2022

What is a characteristic of the plot of a real number in the complex plane?

From Textbooks ● Feb. 13, 2015

The Riemann zeta function is the analytic continuation of this function to the whole complex plane minus the point s=1.

From Scientific American ● Jan. 20, 2014

He painted this complex plane, with its traceries, sculptures, pilasters and sunken portals jutting out and receding, 28 times, after first painting two close-ups of the Tour Saint Romain, one of the two western towers.

From Washington Post

In the old days, before Riemann saw that the complex plane was really a sphere, functions like 1/x would stump mathematicians.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

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