Complex numbers and function.ppt

Contents Complex numbers Diophantus Italian rennaissance mathematicians Rene Descartes Abraham de Moivre Leonhard Euler Caspar Wessel Jean-Robert Argand Carl Friedrich Gauss Contents (cont.) Complex functions Augustin Louis Cauchy Georg F. B. Riemann Cauchy – Riemann equation The use of complex numbers today Discussion??? Diophantus of Alexandria Circa 200/214 - circa 284/298 An ancient Greek mathematician He lived in Alexandria Diophantine equations Diophantus was probably a Hellenized Babylonian. Area and perimeter problems Can you find such a triangle? The hypotenuse must be (after some calculations) 29/6 units Then the other sides must have sum = 43/6, and product like 14 square units. You can’t find such numbers!!!!! Italian rennaissance mathematicians They put the quadric equations into three groups (they didn’t know the number 0): ax2 + b x = c ax2 = b x + c ax2 + c = bx Italian rennaissance mathematicians Del Ferro (1465 – 1526) Found sollutions to: x3 + bx = c Antonio Fior Not that smart – but ambitious Tartaglia (1499 - 1557) Re-discovered the method – defeated Fior Gerolamo Cardano (1501 – 1576) Managed to solve all kinds of cubic equations+ equations of degree four. Ferrari Defeated Tartaglia in 1548 Cardano’s formula Rafael Bombelli A classical example using Cardano’s formula Rene Descartes (1596 – 1650) Cartesian coordinate system a + ib i is the imaginary unit i2 = -1 Abraham de Moivre (1667 - 1754) (cosx + i sinx)^n = cos(nx) + i sin(nx) z^n= 1 Newton knew this formula in 1676 Poor – earned money playing chess Leonhard Euler 1707 - 1783 Swiss mathematician Collected works fills 75 volumes Completely blind the last 17 years of his life Eulers formula in complex analysis Caspar Wessel (1745 – 1818) The sixth of fourteen children Studied in Copenhagen for a law degree Caspar Wessels elder brother, Johan Herman Wessel was a major name in Norwegian and Danish literature Related to Peter Wessel Tordenskiold Wessels work as a surve