Frank, one of my father's high school best friends, is a mathematician. Currently studying to be an actuary, he lives in upstate New York with his sister. They live surrounded by stacks of paper and own a cat named Finton. I called him up for this math interview!
{I tried again and again to upload the audio, but I think I'm going to have to keep my project as a hard copy-- CD style.}
Here's a little outline for following along:
-Euler’s Equation-- the most often used equation
-Real numbers are a subset of imagionary numbers
z=a+bi
z= complex number
a=real number; x axis
b= real number; y axis
i= -1 when squared
“Complex Numbers”
Euler called them “cuaternion” numbers in the 1800s, when they were invented. Real world applications are in currents and more!
complex numbers -------> z=a+bi -------> cuaternion numbers
“complex conjugate”
e = natural log ----> 2.78
Euler’s equation
“revenue functions”
"maximizing things"
Then it all comes back to trig. and the unit circle!
