Dan Anderson@dandersod.recursiveprocess.com3wMath is weird. This guy (and his student) derived the cubic and quartic formulas. Also had to "invent" complex numbers and spread the use of negative numbers in Europe. Described complex numbers as "as subtle as they are useless". Love it.111
Dan Anderson@dandersod.recursiveprocess.comAnd this is all ~100 years before the Cartesian plane was "invented".2/10/26, 1:38 pm·0 reposts·0 likes