In spite of their name, “imaginary” numbers are as real as any other numbers, especially when it comes to hunting for lost treasure. For our first Insights puzzle of 2019, let’s go on a treasure hunt.

Bicomplex analysis, an extension of traditional complex analysis, investigates functions defined on bicomplex numbers – entities formed by a pair of complex units. This framework enriches classical ...

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 ...