How does one “invent new maths”? Like Isaac Newton inventing Calculus, or John Napier logs. How does one answer a mathematical question that’s never been answered?
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Usually just looking at a problem from a different angle, or taking a path nobody explored before.
“I know you can only take the square root of a positive number but what would happen if we create a hypothetical number, let’s call it ‘i’, and claim that squaring it equals -1”.
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