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
He went off into a happy mist of quantum mechanics, oscillation theory, and periodic functions of a complex variable.
From Security by Anderson, Poul William
A particular case of the problem is that of the conformal representation of the interior of a closed polygon upon the upper half of the plane of a complex variable t.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
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
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