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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

We use the complex plane, which is a coordinate system in which the horizontal axis represents the real component and the vertical axis represents the imaginary component.

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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