Imaginary numbers love math

Radical Puzzles

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    While on his deathbed, Scipione del Ferro, the first individual to solve the depressed cubic equation x^3 + px = q, gave the formula to one of his students Antonio Maria Fiore.
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    Gerolamo Cardano used a formula to create a proof for the depressed cubic equations.
    https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KNx94Lr8oCKk8WUDhxCEVIw3eOWyHw2lVqDFyYiPm-4/edit

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    The philosopher René Descartes became the first person to use the term imaginary to describe numbers with geometric impossibilities.

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    Caspar Wessel became the first individual to present a reasonable representation of imaginary numbers in his paper “On the Analytical Representation of Direction: An Attempt” by using vectors, and they became highly accepted.

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    Carl Friedrich Gauss published a paper that introduced the term complex numbers to describe the square root of a negative number, rather than imaginary or impossible