complex variable
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of complex variable
First recorded in 1875–80
Example Sentences
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Consider the polynomial z2, where is the complex variable x+iy.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 26, 2012
The advances add one more complex variable to the equation of mutual deterrence.
From Time Magazine Archive
Monogenic Functions.—This suggests an entirely different way of formulating the fundamental parts of the theory of functions of a complex variable, which appears to be preferable to that so far followed here.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
The Geometry of the zeros of a polynomial in a complex variable.
From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1977 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office
He went off into a happy mist of quantum mechanics, oscillation theory, and periodic functions of a complex variable.
From Security by Poul William Anderson
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