Hypercomplex numbers extend the concept of complex numbers by adding additional dimensions to the imaginary part. Instead of points on a two-dimensional plane, they therefore represent points in multi ...

Have you ever sat in a math classroom and wondered, “When will I ever use this?” You might have asked yourself this question when you first encountered “imaginary” numbers, and with good reason: What ...

An international team of researchers shows through a concrete theoretical experiment that the prediction by standard complex quantum theory cannot be expressed by its real counterpart and ratifies its ...