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  • We will find both the square roots of i, i.e. sqrt(i). We will first write sqrt(i) as a complex number a+bi and then square both sides. Then we will solve for a and b by setting a system of equations! This is the algebra way to find the square root of the imaginary unit i.
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  • @blackpenredpen
    @blackpenredpen  Před 3 měsíci +73

    sqrt(a+bi)=?
    Answer here: czcams.com/video/CeVdh5LH908/video.html

    • @user-rN-37
      @user-rN-37 Před 3 měsíci

      👍

    • @onradioactivewaves
      @onradioactivewaves Před 2 měsíci +1

      White Chalk Red Chalk, nice 😊

    • @allozovsky
      @allozovsky Před 2 měsíci

      Steve:
      0:00 As we all know, √(-1) = 𝒊
      Also Steve:
      8:50 √𝒊 = ±(1 + 𝒊)/√2 - *two answers*
      That's inconsistent!

    • @onradioactivewaves
      @onradioactivewaves Před 2 měsíci

      @@allozovsky it's not inconsistent. There's one in Q I and another in Q III separated by p u/2 rotation Much like using an inverse trig function to return an answer in a limited domain where the actual solution may be outside of that domain. Recall that -1 is a real number, I is imaginary, and thr square roots are complex. Complex numbers don't behave quite the same as real and purely imaginary numbers.

    • @allozovsky
      @allozovsky Před 2 měsíci

      @@onradioactivewaves If √𝒊 = ±(1 + 𝒊)/√2 gives two complex square roots, then √(−1) also should return two complex square roots, that is √(−1) = ±𝒊, isn't it? Otherwise it is inconsistent. That's pretty strange that Steve often evaluates in his videos multivalued complex functions alright, but at the same time uses only single 𝒊 for the square root of −1.

  • @Electric_Bagpipes
    @Electric_Bagpipes Před 3 lety +18686

    There ya go psychologists; the root of imagination.

  • @BlackIGO
    @BlackIGO Před 3 lety +7224

    Plot twist: He has endless layers of boards.

  • @Ambarrabma
    @Ambarrabma Před 8 měsíci +395

    What I miss when I zone out for 30 seconds in class:

  • @CannedMan
    @CannedMan Před rokem +17

    My professor taught me something valuable when writing my master’s: Never start an argument/discussion/presentation with ‘as we all know’; you never know who doesn’t know, and thus risk pushing away potentially interested readers.

    • @finnboltz
      @finnboltz Před 3 měsíci +3

      I completely agree with your professor about that.

    • @callumross6290
      @callumross6290 Před 12 dny

      I think if youre a math channel that posts exclusively calculus content its okay to assume your viewers know the definition of i

    • @CannedMan
      @CannedMan Před 11 dny

      @@callumross6290 What if you are interested in math but never learnt calculus, and someone recommended this channel as it’s really good content?

  • @jonhues5552
    @jonhues5552 Před 3 lety +7685

    I happened to watch this on my break from studying before my leaving cert maths exam. Square root of a complex number was on the exam and I got the right answer using this method. What a crazy lucky coincidence.

    • @dolumdoli7621
      @dolumdoli7621 Před 2 lety +239

      Congrats man

    • @artemis_furrson
      @artemis_furrson Před 2 lety +62

      Yeah I remember the exam. I used a different method tho.

    • @randomzedotp9579
      @randomzedotp9579 Před 2 lety +16

      @@artemis_furrson What was it? 🧐

    • @Someone-wj1lf
      @Someone-wj1lf Před 2 lety +191

      @Mosinlogan Being interested in what you study is a blessing many students would strive to have.

    • @arian6565
      @arian6565 Před 2 lety +9

      @@Someone-wj1lf there's no way people are like that? Lol I didn't know that, that's strange

  • @PG6813
    @PG6813 Před 4 lety +4147

    Me: trying to go to sleep
    CZcams: BuT wHaTs ThE sQuArE rOoT oF i???

  • @nayjer2576
    @nayjer2576 Před rokem +633

    There is a simpler way without the polar form. We know a² - b² = 0 and 2ab = 1, therefore a² = b² a = b or a = - b. But because of the second equation we can cancel out a = - b as a possibility. That means a = b and if we plug this in the second equation we get: 2a² = 1 a = +/ - (1/sqrt(2)). Thats it. :D

    • @Arcangel0723
      @Arcangel0723 Před rokem +60

      yeah I instantly saw that, its cool how there are so many different ways to arrive at the same answer

    • @gamerdude7800
      @gamerdude7800 Před rokem +5

      No , just cause a² = b² , Doesn't mean a = b , cause (-1)² = 1² but obviously -1 ≠ 1

    • @nayjer2576
      @nayjer2576 Před rokem +106

      @@gamerdude7800 read my comment again

    • @priyanshusharma1812
      @priyanshusharma1812 Před rokem +30

      ​@@gamerdude7800 he mentioned a=±b

    • @musty2468
      @musty2468 Před rokem +4

      This is how I did it too, nice

  • @neobaud513
    @neobaud513 Před rokem +346

    You can also convert to e^(i*π/2). Then sqrt(e^(i*π/2))=e^(i*π/4). Then convert back to get 1/sqrt(2)+i/sqrt(2)

    • @at_one
      @at_one Před rokem +18

      And losing second solution )

    • @CorvusSapien
      @CorvusSapien Před rokem +42

      You can get the second solution by generally writing sqrt(i)=exp(i*(pi/2+k*pi)) for k any integer

    • @at_one
      @at_one Před rokem +5

      @@CorvusSapien It's not a solution. You write just answer. Initial post suppose to write i, but not sqrt(i) in exponential form. And than use powering properties.
      One could write
      i = exp(i*π/2 + 2πk)
      i**0.5 = exp(i*π/4 + πk)
      But why we didn't lose something else in this solution?
      Using powering properties is totally wrong way of thinking in this case.

    • @peted2783
      @peted2783 Před rokem +6

      @@at_one doing square root gives 2 solutions
      sqrt(i)= ±sqrt(e^πi/2)= ±e^πi/4 = ±(cos(π/4)+isin(π/4))
      giving the 2 solutions: sqrt(i)=1/sqrt(2) + i/sqrt(2) or sqrt(i)=-1/sqrt(2) -i/sqrt(2)

    • @at_one
      @at_one Před rokem +1

      @@peted2783 this is not a question. The question is about using powering properties.
      My opinion is that your's approach is wrong. On this case it gives correct answer, but in general case not.
      One must use this formula while square rooting:
      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Moivre%27s_formula
      But you shouldn't use this formula:
      (e^z)^0.5 ≠ e^(0.5z)
      to find all roots.
      Initial post is about powering. And my comment is about it. I know how to square rooting in complex field 😂

  • @thexavier666
    @thexavier666 Před 6 lety +4534

    I, as a non native english speaker, watched your video at 2x speed. Got everything you said. Keep it up.

    • @fattymuffinbbx
      @fattymuffinbbx Před 6 lety +62

      You should be an English teacher

    • @trobin
      @trobin Před 6 lety +50

      Cough cough the pinned comment cough cough

    • @JannisAdmek
      @JannisAdmek Před 6 lety +16

      me too, I guess as a non english native speaker you are used to a bigger variety of accents

    • @nicholasleclerc1583
      @nicholasleclerc1583 Před 6 lety +3

      OMG EXACTLY ME!!!!!!!!!!

    • @guiguspi
      @guiguspi Před 6 lety +1

      Me too. I think improving the accent would be nice still, though.

  • @badhbhchadh
    @badhbhchadh Před 5 lety +772

    whitechalkredchalk

  • @AniketTurkel
    @AniketTurkel Před 8 měsíci +10

    Just a heads up, writing it in Euler form is way faster.
    That is,
    i = e^[iπ/2]
    => √i = e^[iπ/4]
    = 1/√2 + i.1/√2.
    Edit: forgot a - for the second root.

  • @stalebread9833
    @stalebread9833 Před 3 lety +2497

    I litterally read it as "Squ(i)rt"

  • @NotYourAverageNothing
    @NotYourAverageNothing Před 6 lety +902

    Wanna know what's behind my board? It's another board!

    • @_carrbgamingjr
      @_carrbgamingjr Před 5 lety +37

      bruh this teacher is so prepared. he uses 2 different colors of chalk to distinguish between terms and grouping symbols. Good Job!

    • @_carrbgamingjr
      @_carrbgamingjr Před 5 lety +34

      Wanna know what's behind the second board? A third board!

    • @vishwaajithn.k3266
      @vishwaajithn.k3266 Před 5 lety +1

      @@_carrbgamingjr yep

    • @stevens5541
      @stevens5541 Před 5 lety +4

      I'm board.

    • @_carrbgamingjr
      @_carrbgamingjr Před 5 lety

      @@stevens5541 ok

  • @adityellectual4563
    @adityellectual4563 Před rokem +45

    Another way can be e^(i*π/2)= i for r=1, square root both sides and it will be e^(i*π/4)=√i, which will give √i= (1+i)√2

    • @amorios1092
      @amorios1092 Před 2 dny

      that only gives the positive sides of things because you're doing it in polar form which makes the angle be divided by two, and it was positive (90 cuz e^(pi*i) is on the Y axis)
      meaning it has an angle of 45 now, which is only the positive quarter, meaning you have to draw a 45 degree line, or Y = X line, and take the answers that sit on the unit circle
      which are two
      45 degrees, and the +180 degrees from that, 215. meaning you'll get the one in the negative quarter

  • @kritishalli5073
    @kritishalli5073 Před rokem +29

    This showed up on my recommended, and I could feel myself getting smarter throughout the video because of your amazing teaching style. You have earned yourself a new subscriber, so thank you

  • @waxyacrobat
    @waxyacrobat Před 3 lety +1328

    6:05 when he got the answer he started moving closer to the speed of light

    • @SusEGP
      @SusEGP Před 2 lety +27

      Lmao underrated

    • @francescolorenzelli8912
      @francescolorenzelli8912 Před 2 lety +12

      When you beat a boss in Kingdom Hearts

    • @Star-rd9eg
      @Star-rd9eg Před 2 lety +3

      @@francescolorenzelli8912 didnt think id find a kingdom hearts reference here ..... i still dont get the joke tho
      edit: Ahh i see the vision is blury...

    • @lqwe5627
      @lqwe5627 Před 2 lety

      lmaoo

    • @joey7107
      @joey7107 Před 2 lety

      I thought the same thing haha

  • @n484l3iehugtil
    @n484l3iehugtil Před 6 lety +3939

    I don't know why people keep complaining about this guy's solution to the problem, and why they offer geometric proofs instead. I really like this guy's answer because it uses only the simplest arithmetic/algebra and the simplest definition of a complex number: a + bi. Also, he did it in an incredibly concise manner. (My only complaint was at the end where he could have used a² - b² = (a+b)(a-b) = 0 --> a = ±b. But, typing this out, I suddenly realise how clever he is that even *factorization* doesn't need to be used in his answer.) This answer is teachable on someone's very first lesson on complex numbers; even the average 15-year-old will comprehend it very well, and he's earned my amazement.

    • @blackpenredpen
      @blackpenredpen  Před 6 lety +642

      Billy Ma-gusta thank you Billy. I think people just got too excited. It's like once they see derivatives, they want to show algebra students to take the derivative to find the vertex of a parabola.

    • @alcesmir
      @alcesmir Před 6 lety +49

      Billy Ma-gusta You want concise?
      Polar form: R*exp(iθ) = sqrt(i)
      Square: R^2*exp(2iθ) = i = exp(i(π/2 + 2πn)), n integer
      Identify: R=1, θ=π/4+nπ
      Done.
      Or if you prefer rectangular form the unique representations are: ±(1+i)/sqrt(2)
      Tl;dr: Rectangular is great for addition and subtraction, polar for multiplication, powers and roots. Right tool for the job.

    • @n484l3iehugtil
      @n484l3iehugtil Před 6 lety +234

      My point: Your working is as opaque as it gets. For all the average high schooler or CZcamsr can see, you're just writing a whole bunch of Greek because nothing is explained. The polar form of complex numbers isn't explained at all. The polar form of √i specifically also isn't explained, neither is i. Converting between the polar form and the rectangular form also isn't explained. You cannot call this concise when you leave so much unexplained; someone who doesn't know the required background knowledge would call this gibberish. (Like how I call bullshit when I am told "using string theory, we can show that 11 physical dimensions exist". Just an example, don't digress pls.)
      And the greater point: the polar form does not NEED to be explained in order to prove this result, as bprp has shown. Simpler is better in maths, and a short proof is not necessarily a simple proof.

    • @alcesmir
      @alcesmir Před 6 lety +8

      I would happily agree that I assume too much if I for some video on an
      integral complain about someone not using residuals and Cauchy's
      integral formula to solve an integral on the real line since it would be
      trivial that way. But assuming knowledge of the polar form of a complex number, which is as fundamental as the rectangular form, is not a stretch imo.
      As for the specific polar forms. I never use the polar form of sqrt(i), only the polar form of i, to keep things simpler. I could happily have shown a justification of the polar form of i, but it's a bit clunky without being able to show any figures. Basically you have an angle of π/2 to i and any 2π increment of that still leaves you at i. If I had shown this on a blackboard the justification is explained in a few seconds.
      The conversion to rectangular form is really not part of my solution, I'm happy to stay in polar form.
      My point is that this result is trivial in the polar world. It also gives some really nice insights about how the root behaves in general, which is totally lost in rectangular form. Using polar form the result also trivially generalizes to any real power of i.
      Just like addition/subtraction is trivial in rectangular but a mess in polar form. Sure you could technically use the strategy as shown in this video to describe the 5th or 50th root of i as well, but it would be very cumbersome and very brute force.

    • @grrrlag
      @grrrlag Před 6 lety +82

      you actually don't need factorization to get that a = b.
      1. a² - b² = 0 -> a² = b², therefore a and b have the same magnitude.
      2. 2ab = 1, ab = 1/2, therefore a and b have the same sign (if the product of 2 real numbers is positive, then 2 real numbers have the same sign)
      3. a = b, because a and b have the same magnitude (1) and the same sign (2) (definition of equality for real numbers)
      4.a*a = 1/2 = a², from (3) and (2)
      5. a = ± sqrt(1/2), sqrt both sides of (4)
      6. b = ± sqrt(1/2), from (3)
      I actually prefer this method of solving the system of equations over the video because it takes less steps and is more intuitive. the videos method involves a lot of seemingly arbitrary moving of symbols around while each of my 6 steps have much clearer purpose.

  • @lifeatitsfinest3019
    @lifeatitsfinest3019 Před rokem +10

    bro has infinite blackboards

  • @a_voice_in_the_wilderness
    @a_voice_in_the_wilderness Před 10 měsíci +10

    That was interesting to follow, I've forgotten so much math including basic algebra, this was very helpful and you did a great job of explaining it all.

  • @chetanraikwal5766
    @chetanraikwal5766 Před 4 lety +1414

    **He lifts up the black board**
    Me - what the hell is thisss?

    • @SuperUghe
      @SuperUghe Před 4 lety +121

      *lifts second blackboard revealing a third*
      “Oh my god!”

    • @chetanraikwal5766
      @chetanraikwal5766 Před 4 lety +19

      @@SuperUghe yeah I guess the future is here!

    • @BenitezCarvalho
      @BenitezCarvalho Před 4 lety +28

      What? This is pretty common xD

    • @TimThomason
      @TimThomason Před 4 lety +8

      @@SuperUghe It's blackboards all the way down.

    • @nanashi_74_
      @nanashi_74_ Před 4 lety +2

      No it is -green board-

  • @TheDailyEgg
    @TheDailyEgg Před 4 lety +2614

    Okay, that's easy. The real question is:
    How many blackboards does this guy have?

  • @jumbledbee3603
    @jumbledbee3603 Před rokem +9

    I had an aneurysm trying to figure out how u were changing the chalk color for like a solid 10 sec until I realized it was just 2 pieces of chalk

  • @warwick802
    @warwick802 Před rokem +3

    This is genuinely the first time I've watched math videos for entertainment. Props to bprp

  • @GamingConsole
    @GamingConsole Před 3 lety +2982

    Ok fine but, Why is he holding a grenade in his hands

    • @kayjaad3349
      @kayjaad3349 Před 3 lety +87

      that's a microphone

    • @user-yj5cm1jz7h
      @user-yj5cm1jz7h Před 3 lety +198

      @@kayjaad3349 $Thanks, I did not know that_

    • @GamingConsole
      @GamingConsole Před 3 lety +153

      @@kayjaad3349 there's something called sarcasm sis......

    • @GamingConsole
      @GamingConsole Před 3 lety +9

      @AFancySpoon you'll only get attention if you comment on the board that this guy is using XD
      *Bitter truth tho*

    • @qubatistic4788
      @qubatistic4788 Před 3 lety +84

      His parents made him hold it, it'll go off the moment he makes a mistake.

  • @megablademe4930
    @megablademe4930 Před 3 lety +829

    My man’s too drippy for us, wearing supreme and teaching maths

  • @Bikeswede7568
    @Bikeswede7568 Před rokem +10

    Another way to see it is that multiplying by i makes the complex number rotate around origo by 90° (pi/2). Multiplying by i^(1/2) instead rotates 45° (pi/4). So, for example, 1 × i^(3/2) = -1/sqrt(2) + i/sqrt(2) since that is where a rotation of 135° from 0° takes us.

  • @HuntingKingYT
    @HuntingKingYT Před 11 měsíci +3

    3:20 from these equations you could have just done:
    a^2-b^2=0 => |a|-|b|=0 => |a|=|b|
    Then, knowing that you can go to the next equation:
    2ab=1 => ab=1/2 => sign(a)=sign(b)
    (Either both positive or both negative, because their multiplication results in a positive number)
    Then, because their signs are equal *AND* their absolute values are equal, you can assume their both equal.
    So now you have 2 solutions that differ by sign:
    a=b=+-sqrt(1/2)

  • @ketofitforlife2917
    @ketofitforlife2917 Před 3 lety +1533

    I appreciate the depth of this explanation, rather than memorizing forms, for the sake of speed and ease, you showed me understanding. I appreciate knowing why, over mechanical speed.

    • @woophereigo9755
      @woophereigo9755 Před 2 lety +6

      You'll get mechanical speed with practice. Idiots just don't know to practice.

    • @manperson6234
      @manperson6234 Před 2 lety +66

      @@woophereigo9755 Smart guy over here. Shut up.

    • @woophereigo9755
      @woophereigo9755 Před 2 lety

      @@manperson6234 Bunch of morons. Get good.

    • @k-fedd
      @k-fedd Před 2 lety +22

      @@woophereigo9755 yikes bud 😬

    • @sam_music555
      @sam_music555 Před 2 lety +14

      @@woophereigo9755 One thing is be fast while doing your own calculations, another is following another one being fast doing his calculations

  • @jabir5768
    @jabir5768 Před 6 lety +946

    Very understandable even as a non native speaker

    • @blackpenredpen
      @blackpenredpen  Před 6 lety +47

      thanks!!

    • @anandviswanathan4625
      @anandviswanathan4625 Před 5 lety +11

      I agree. Your work is very good. Dont worry about trolls who complain and then fight.

    • @YellowToad
      @YellowToad Před 4 lety +2

      *egg*

    • @Nylspider
      @Nylspider Před 4 lety +1

      @@YellowToad egg

    • @rubineronaldvallevivar
      @rubineronaldvallevivar Před 2 lety

      Es verdad mientras voy en un bus lo miro, por el alto volumen de bus no puedo oír el vídeo, soy hispanohablante, aún así se entiende todo.

  • @D.A.Jamal.
    @D.A.Jamal. Před 7 měsíci

    Loved the way u explained!

  • @lynxprime1778
    @lynxprime1778 Před rokem +3

    "sqrt" being sus

  • @asforax8909
    @asforax8909 Před 3 lety +2085

    There is an other easy way :
    We have i=e^(i(π/2))
    So √i =[e^(i(π/2))]^((1/2))
    So √i=e^(i(π/4))=√2/2 +i √2/2
    It means that √i = √2/2 +i √2/2

  • @brunoamezcua3112
    @brunoamezcua3112 Před 6 lety +192

    I don't understand how this can be SO FUKING PERFECT

    • @stumpfightskills571
      @stumpfightskills571 Před 5 lety +14

      Bruno Amezcua, because mathematics is a series of quantitative tautologies, where each system builds off the previous system.

    • @Infinite_Precision
      @Infinite_Precision Před 5 lety +1

      @@stumpfightskills571 Well said!!⚡🔥

    • @michelmln
      @michelmln Před 2 lety +1

      He almost made a writing mistake at the end (= instead of or) but fixed it immediately...

  • @jawad9757
    @jawad9757 Před rokem +2

    Equating real and imaginary components in general is pretty useful

  • @TRINI123A
    @TRINI123A Před rokem +2

    thanks. i was wondering about this when i woke up.

  • @RobbyRatPoison
    @RobbyRatPoison Před 2 lety +1090

    Only thing confusing was saying 1/(2*(1/√2)) = 1/√2
    When I looked I instead got √2/2 but if you multiply by √2/√2 you get 2/2√2 which gives you 1/√2 so you were right but that part was the only thing I found to be unclear

    • @TheWannaramble
      @TheWannaramble Před 2 lety +163

      glad you commented because that tripped me up as well

    • @someoneunimportant3064
      @someoneunimportant3064 Před rokem +70

      @@TheWannaramble 2/sqrt(2) should be multiplied with sqrt(2)/sqrt(2) (which changes nothing since it's just 1).
      2*sqrt(2)/sqrt(2)*sqrt(2)
      We know that square root of n multiplied with itself gives us n so:
      2*sqrt(2)/2
      Both sides divided by 2
      Sqrt(2)

    • @TheWannaramble
      @TheWannaramble Před rokem +11

      @@someoneunimportant3064 very clear, thanks

    • @someoneunimportant3064
      @someoneunimportant3064 Před rokem +5

      @@TheWannaramble you are very welcome, glad it helped

    • @57energon
      @57energon Před rokem

      @@TheWannaramble that is what I thought

  • @simi_says
    @simi_says Před 2 lety +304

    Surprisingly complex yet also surprisingly simple

    • @henkhu100
      @henkhu100 Před rokem +4

      But wrong!
      The answer is wrong! There are two square roots of i. A value x is a square root of i if x^2 = i. So what you find are the square roots of i. But one of those square roots is ⎷i. Just like 2 and -2 are the square roots of 4, but ⎷4 = 2. and not also -2
      So only the principle root is ⎷i. the symbol ⎷ is used for the principle root. So his answer is wrong.
      For ⎷i see also 5.1 on en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_root#Principal_square_root_of_a_complex_number

    • @ZotyLisu
      @ZotyLisu Před rokem +20

      @@henkhu100 what do you mean? in complex numbers n-th root always has n answers, and he showed both

    • @henkhu100
      @henkhu100 Před rokem +4

      @@ZotyLisu Indeed: there are two square roots(as I mentioned in my reaction). But only one of them can be written with the ⎷ symbol. Example: 4 has two square roots: 2 and -2. But ⎷4 is just one of those values: 2 (the non negative) and is called the principle square root. So when he gives two values for ⎷i he's wrong.
      In the case of complex numbers we have a similar situation. There are again two square roots, but only one of them can be written with the symbol ⎷
      See the paragraph Algebraic Formula. on
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_root#Principal_square_root_of_a_complex_number
      For the principle root of x+iy.
      You will see that that principle square root (written as ⎷(x+iy). stands for just 1 value.
      And in the video he gives two values for ⎷i. and that's not correct. May be he does not know the differents between the square roots of a value x and the value ⎷x. The problem he solved is not "find ⎷i." but "find the square roots of i."

    • @ZotyLisu
      @ZotyLisu Před rokem +2

      @@henkhu100 yeah he could've wrote w0 and w1 or whatever, but I disagree that that's an only definition, in my course the value of an expression with ⎷ symbol was defined as a set of all answers - I'm still a bit confused on how that works tbh

    • @henkhu100
      @henkhu100 Před rokem +2

      @@ZotyLisu If ⎷ is a set then what is the meaning of for instance (⎷5)/(⎷6) ? A quotient as a result of deviding one set by another? ⎷5 is not a set, it is just a value.
      Example: solve x^2=7. In your opinion the solution is x=⎷7 because ⎷7 stands for all answers . But the solution is
      x=⎷7. or x=-⎷7.
      The definition of the ⎷ symbol in your course was not correct.
      I am sure you know the solution of a standerd quadratic equation: x=(-b+⎷(b^2-4ac))/2a. or x=(-b-⎷(b^2-4ac))/2a
      Your definition of the ⎷ symbol would only give the first value because the ⎷ symbol already stands for the + end the - in the formula.

  • @quandarkumtanglehairs4743
    @quandarkumtanglehairs4743 Před 2 měsíci

    Dude that's so clean and badass dude lmao
    Glad I watched and paid attention to the end lol
    fin perfect

  • @garylawrence7547
    @garylawrence7547 Před rokem

    The most amazing part here is that he can write on the board with two different colors in one hand!! Truly amazing.

  • @mohitdeb6728
    @mohitdeb6728 Před 3 lety +821

    Teacher : What is the value of infinity?
    Me : The amount of boards that blackpenredpen has .
    Teacher : 🙏

  • @blackpenredpen
    @blackpenredpen  Před 5 lety +648

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    • @einsteingonzalez4336
      @einsteingonzalez4336 Před 5 lety +8

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    • @yoavcarmel1245
      @yoavcarmel1245 Před 5 lety +7

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    • @blackpenredpen
      @blackpenredpen  Před 5 lety +9

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    • @yasserouhamiche4418
      @yasserouhamiche4418 Před 5 lety +3

      When it's power 4 we will find 4 solution i guess!!

    • @kutuboxbayzan5967
      @kutuboxbayzan5967 Před 5 lety +6

      Another way1:
      İ=e^(i*pi/2)
      Sqrt(i)=e^(i*pi/4)=
      Cos (pi/4)+i*sin (pi/4)=
      (İ+1)/sqrt(2)
      Another way 2:
      Sqrt (i)=x
      X^4=-1
      (X^2+sqrt (2)x+1)*
      (X^2-sqrt (2)x+1)
      Solutions
      (İ-1)/sqrt(2)
      (İ+1)/sqrt(2)
      (1-i)/sqrt(2)
      -(1+i)/sqrt(2)
      And later we found
      Sqrt (i)=(i+1)/sqrt(2)

  • @graquaza8180
    @graquaza8180 Před 8 měsíci +1

    in a^2-b^2=1 you can simply add b^2 to both sides to get a^2=b^2 and then cut the roots then use this to get a=b then in 2ab=1 divide both sides by 2 to get ab=1/2 and then use a=b to get a^2=1/2 and then root both sides to get the answer to a and therefore b

  • @sophisticatedplayer
    @sophisticatedplayer Před 4 měsíci +2

    Euler's formula just makes everything easier

  • @TheMasterfulcreator
    @TheMasterfulcreator Před 5 lety +1383

    Make sure you don't focus too much on improving your accent first of all. I could comprehend it just fine. Chinese pronunciation works just fine on English language as long as you have practiced. More good videos please.

    • @DavidGarcia-nx2gj
      @DavidGarcia-nx2gj Před 5 lety +56

      you are studying math you dont even know how to speak english to understand this. math is universa, i didnt even listen the audio to understand everything i jus tskipped it

    • @liujanis636
      @liujanis636 Před 5 lety +4

      @TheMasterfulcreator I see what you did there.

    • @wildchicken2049
      @wildchicken2049 Před 5 lety +2

      Nice I like what u did

    • @zek9277
      @zek9277 Před 5 lety +4

      Math is its own language

    • @mattfrankman
      @mattfrankman Před 5 lety +9

      My calc class is taught by a Romanian woman, half the class is Chinese. Communication is not a problem. Math is the universal language, numbers unite us all.

  • @blackpenredpen
    @blackpenredpen  Před 2 lety +778

    What if we have infinite nested square roots of i
    sqrt(i+sqrt(i+sqrt(i+...))): czcams.com/video/4EZRXWW607c/video.html

  • @captainhero4116
    @captainhero4116 Před 2 měsíci

    Thanks to your newer videos, I did it in less than 5 minutes on my own :D

  • @iHATEbigots666
    @iHATEbigots666 Před rokem

    thanks for everything, over many years. you're the best

  • @iaagoarielschwoelklobo6342
    @iaagoarielschwoelklobo6342 Před 7 lety +832

    8:54
    10 people got *TRIGGERED* because he didn't rationalize the denominator

    • @blackpenredpen
      @blackpenredpen  Před 7 lety +50

      IAAGO ARIEL SCHWOELK LOBO lol!!!!

    • @Aramil4
      @Aramil4 Před 7 lety +25

      IAAGO ARIEL SCHWOELK LOBO No one rationalizes denominators in 2017 - that's what people did back in the day when there were no calculators and you'd prefer dividing the memorized decimal form of the square root by the rationalized denominator.

    • @scitwi9164
      @scitwi9164 Před 7 lety +25

      Another thing is that rationalizing the denominator often hides the geometric connections between quantities. It's a bit harder to see that `√2/2` is the inverse of `√2`, but it is obvious when you didn't rationalize it: `1/√2` (one over something is the inverse). It's even more hard to see it with some more complex expressions with radicals. That's why I usually leave it unrationalized, as an inverse, unless I really have to rationalize it.

    • @Aramil4
      @Aramil4 Před 7 lety +1

      Sci Twi I wonder what modern books have answer keys that use rationalised denominators..

    • @JM-lh8rl
      @JM-lh8rl Před 7 lety +6

      Sci Twi Look; I've got mixed feelings for the conventions of rationalizing denominators or not. You are completely right about maintaining the instant recognition for inverses, but then you'd be compromising the recognition of like terms. For example, 3/sqrt5 does not look like it could be added to 2sqrt5/2, but after rationalizing, you can see clearly that 3sqrt5/5 _can_. Now, on the issue of having the same answers as the teachers do (and trying to overlook the insult to many great math teachers I've met that I'm sure you were not trying to offend), you can't really be opposed to unification of measures or answers -at least to some extent you have to accept it. Of course it makes your life easier to save extra moments on a test or whatever, but using a more real life example with more important implications, the SIU (International System of Units)'s purpose is to ease scientists' endeavors at "sciencing", if you will, by having set standards as to what units are official, what they measure, and how much of that something they measure. This, of course, may mean little to a mathematician's job, but if you can apply this same smooth interchange of information through the answers and numbers you represent, what you try to state will be better conveyed and understood by the audience to whom you present the information to. Anyway, I know I can't force someone to think the way I do, and you have to use the methods that you know are better for your learning (very similar to the π/τ argument), but thanks for reading to the end.

  • @CharlesPanigeo
    @CharlesPanigeo Před 2 lety +797

    You can also think about it in polar form. i is on the unit circle, so it's roots are also on the unit circle. The argument for the principal value must be π/4 (½ the argument of i). So if you have your unit circle memorized the principal root is clearly sqrt(2)/2 + i*sqrt(2)/2. The other root is opposite the principal root at -sqrt(2)/2 -i*sqrt(2)/2

    • @benjamintete7335
      @benjamintete7335 Před 2 lety +46

      Damn Its so much simpler

    • @maztrjayz007
      @maztrjayz007 Před 2 lety +20

      That's what I was think. You are rotating half way towards the imaginary number line from the real number line. That would be pi/4 rotation. Then figure out your polar coordinates and trig.

    • @spiderjerusalem4009
      @spiderjerusalem4009 Před 2 lety +1

      x = √i
      x² = i
      x⁴ = i² = -1
      x⁴ + 1 = 0
      x⁴ + 2x² + 1 = 0 + 2x²
      (x²)² + 2x² + 1 = 2x²
      (x² + 1)² = 2x²
      x² + 1 = x √2
      x² - x√2 = -1
      x² - 2(x)(√2 / 2) = -1
      x² - 2(x)(1/√2) + ½ = -1 + ½
      x² - 2(x)(1/√2) + (1/√2)² = -½
      (x - 1/√2)² = -½
      x - 1/√2 = ±√(-½) = ± √(-1) / √2
      x = 1/√2 ± i/√2
      √i = 1/√2 (1 ± i)

    • @laurentwatteau8835
      @laurentwatteau8835 Před 2 lety +4

      I also solved the problem that way.

    • @RichardJohnson_dydx
      @RichardJohnson_dydx Před 2 lety +3

      Yep, that's the way I learned it.

  • @loghtsy8057
    @loghtsy8057 Před rokem +11

    6:31 isnt an easier way of doing that rearranging equation a² - b² = 0 to a² = b² in which case a = b
    then substitute a or b in the second equation so 2a² = 1
    rearrange so a = +-√2/2

    • @infinity8686
      @infinity8686 Před rokem

      same doubt

    • @user-jz5sm4vv6v
      @user-jz5sm4vv6v Před rokem

      It can be a=-b

    • @ampleman602
      @ampleman602 Před rokem +3

      If a² = b²
      a≠b
      Never make that assumption
      But it can be a = -b
      Or
      b = -a

    • @nayjer2576
      @nayjer2576 Před rokem +2

      @@ampleman602 a = -b or b = -a is the same. And he's right, it can only be a = b because of the second condition 2ab = 1, that only works if a = b. If a = -b you would get a negative output.

  • @gurjarriya9
    @gurjarriya9 Před rokem

    this was so informative! thank you.

  • @dcmurphy5157
    @dcmurphy5157 Před 3 lety +330

    I’m not even doing this for school. I’m just interested.

  • @bleesev2
    @bleesev2 Před 4 lety +479

    You went a really complicated way of solving these equations. In my head I did it like so
    a^2 - b^2 = 0; a^2 = b^2; a = +-b
    2ab = 1; we know a and b should be of the same sign so we'll say a = b and get
    2a^2 = 1
    a^2 = 1/2
    a = sqrt(1/2)

    • @mienzillaz
      @mienzillaz Před 4 lety +3

      yup.. same here

    • @apocalypticachmodio
      @apocalypticachmodio Před 4 lety +32

      Exactly what I was thinking. But we would probably get less marks than him cause he did the longer method. 😂

    • @rpgamer1002
      @rpgamer1002 Před 4 lety +38

      Thats why so many people don't get into maths. Maths can be wathever you want, depending on how you enter in. Many examples show very simple solution or very complex ones for the same question. Which one do you prefer ?

    • @Gehr96
      @Gehr96 Před 4 lety +50

      Even simpler:
      sqrt(i) = (e^(i pi/2))^(1/2) = e^(i pi/4) = cos(pi/4) + i sin(pi/4)

    • @mohamedwalid6181
      @mohamedwalid6181 Před 4 lety +4

      Even if signs are same It doesn't make a=b

  • @aurora6814
    @aurora6814 Před rokem

    I SWEAR the other day I was just thinking about this and here comes this video in my recommended. So enlightening, thank you

  • @toyfabrik2993
    @toyfabrik2993 Před rokem +1

    Isn't it much easier to have a look at the situation in polar coordinates, using the complex e-function? That way you see right away that there are two solution, each one a vector in the complex plane with length 1, and theta either being pi over 4 or five pi over 4, which then can be rewritten in regular form using Euler's formula.

  • @harrystuart7455
    @harrystuart7455 Před 6 lety +253

    All the people complaining he didn't use polar co-ordinates are completely missing the point. If you haven't already studied exactly why e^ix = i sin(x) + cos(x) then that would make this video completely pointless, the kind of people who want to know the answer to this problem most likely haven't come across that level of mathematics yet

    • @blackpenredpen
      @blackpenredpen  Před 6 lety +13

      Harry Stuart thanks!

    • @GaryKildall
      @GaryKildall Před 6 lety +1

      Harry Stuart, well assuming you have a calculator for inverse Tan or a book full with tables of precalculated values for not carefully selected examples. And dividing is multiplying with the power of -1 defined as (a-bi)/(a^2+b^2) but you are free to learn such tables like some people like studying phone book numbers 😋

    • @suhailmall98
      @suhailmall98 Před 6 lety +4

      I agree that it doesn't look nice when you first come across it, but polar representation is one of the reasons complex numbers are so useful in the sciences

    • @Taricus
      @Taricus Před 6 lety +3

      densch123 you'll wind up being thankful for the exponential form when you hit differential equations :P

    • @Taricus
      @Taricus Před 6 lety +2

      or theoretical physics... or having to find real and imaginary roots of numbers... and complex functions and variables... lol ;P

  • @jamessaker270
    @jamessaker270 Před 6 lety +192

    Really good explanation! Thanks! As an Englishman, I can completely understand your accent!

    • @blackpenredpen
      @blackpenredpen  Před 6 lety +7

      James Saker thank you James

    • @destinyovbiebo8988
      @destinyovbiebo8988 Před 5 lety +2

      Yeah, bro. Everyone that understand English would understand this man. Some people are talking about his accent in poor because they don’t understand English. As a matter of fact, they don’t even know the origin of English, to go further, English comprises of different European languages.

  • @woodwardscreditcard7482

    This just shows that teachers needs to be smiling more when doing lectures. Just his smile alone made it more fun to watch

  • @Pengochan
    @Pengochan Před 8 měsíci +1

    When doing roots on complex numbers (especially on the unit circle) it's really instructive to look at what happens in the complex plane and represent them in polar representation: i=exp(pi/2 * i), sqrt(i)=exp(pi/4 * i).
    The other thing that should be talked about here is mathematical conventions/notation when taking (principal) square roots, especially when first stating that sqrt(-1)=i unambiguously and then having two results for sqrt(i).

  • @henryolsen6248
    @henryolsen6248 Před 7 lety +372

    I may be the only one who liked you accent. And could you do a video on differential equations?

    • @blackpenredpen
      @blackpenredpen  Před 7 lety +8

      Pink Floyd is the Best Band of All Time. Hi there, thanks!! I do have diff eq videos here www.blackpenredpen.com/math/DiffEq.html

    • @henryolsen6248
      @henryolsen6248 Před 7 lety

      blackpenredpen Thanks!

  • @nholrknrjrk
    @nholrknrjrk Před 5 lety +411

    The funny thing is that 1/sqr(2)=cos(45)=sin(45)

    • @kanekeylewer5704
      @kanekeylewer5704 Před 5 lety +177

      That's not really surprising, you get this immediately using Euler's identity. e^ix = cosx + isinx, so i = e^(i*pi/2). sqrt(i) = i^(1/2) = e^(i*pi/4)

    • @Infinite_Precision
      @Infinite_Precision Před 5 lety +34

      @@kanekeylewer5704 Wow, what is that, I couldn't understand it much but I found it really interesting!

    • @opposite342
      @opposite342 Před 5 lety +4

      I think this method can only get one answer of the square root of i, but I'm not sure. If there is a way to get the other answer, then please reply. I want to know.

    • @TomGalonska
      @TomGalonska Před 5 lety +16

      @@opposite342 There is multiple ways to express an angle as a multiple of pi. The angle pi/2 is the same angle as (5*pi)/2 (by just adding 2*pi = 4*pi/2). If you now say sqrt(i) = sqrt(e^(i*5*pi/2)) = e^(i*5*pi/4) = cos(5*pi/4) + sin(5*pi/4) * i = - 1/sqrt(2) - 1/sqrt(2) i

    • @Abdul-pv1qt
      @Abdul-pv1qt Před 5 lety

      Opposite34 I know I’m a month late but as a person who doesn’t study maths at that level, you explained it really well and i could follow every step

  • @27.mdareeb16
    @27.mdareeb16 Před 9 měsíci +1

    Just solved this today in my classes, takes less than a min if u do it by converting it into eulers form

  • @viz8746
    @viz8746 Před 10 měsíci

    Beautiful and elegant solution.

  • @spitalhelles3380
    @spitalhelles3380 Před 3 lety +514

    Everybody is like 'there' s an easy way:' and then has full paragraphs of calculations.
    Just think in polar coordinates and rotations and the answer is obvious

    • @mrfiermath5036
      @mrfiermath5036 Před 3 lety +50

      Right? It should just be "what rotation composed with itself brings you to where i sits (90 degrees)". Boom 45 degrees. Boom, express as cos(45d)+i sin(45d)

    • @AlanCanon2222
      @AlanCanon2222 Před 3 lety +12

      Yep, I got it that way in seconds. When I was a teenager I was into the Mandelbrot/Julia sets, and the complex plane became my main jam.

    • @inigofield6264
      @inigofield6264 Před 3 lety +105

      @@AlanCanon2222 r/iamverysmart

    • @hispantrapmusic301
      @hispantrapmusic301 Před 3 lety +1

      MrFierMath what I did, like sqr of i is equal to sqrt -1, leave that sqrt and make -1 to polar, and then the moivre method and that is right?

    • @randomness4989
      @randomness4989 Před 3 lety +4

      I didn't have good teachers so this is the first time I understood this out

  • @spencerdavis867
    @spencerdavis867 Před 6 lety +14

    my nigga wearing a supreme shirt
    real shit

  • @mistershaf9648
    @mistershaf9648 Před měsícem

    Super interesting, thanks!

  • @user-FMWM
    @user-FMWM Před 10 měsíci

    By posing i = e^(pi/2), it is quickier to answer.
    At one moment, you divide by "2a", you have supposed that 2a 0.

  • @newmanhiding2314
    @newmanhiding2314 Před 2 lety +172

    I just realized, this answer has a magnitude of 1 on the complex number plane. If you just looked at a and b while disregarding the i, you could say that with Pythagorean’s Theorem and with a and b as the x and y coordinates, the hypotenuse is 1.
    If you draw a unit circle with radius 1 on the complex plane (which touches points 1, -1, i, -i), then you can draw angles based on the points plotted on this unit circle. The angle of this answer with the real number 1 is 45 degrees. The angle between i and 1 is 90 degrees. The angle between -1 and 1 is 180 degrees. The angle between 1 and 1 is 360 degrees. This answer squared is i, i squared is -1, -1 squared is 1.

    • @alexcarpentier5698
      @alexcarpentier5698 Před 2 lety +11

      True, you can also solve multiplications using the complex plane: any two nubers mulitpilied will have an angle equal to the angle of the first and the angle of the second number summed up, and will have a distance from 0 equal to the distance of the first number multiplied by the distance of the second number
      I’m french sorry if this isn’t very clear

    • @spiderjerusalem4009
      @spiderjerusalem4009 Před 2 lety

      x = √i
      x² = i
      x⁴ = i² = -1
      x⁴ + 1 = 0
      x⁴ + 2x² + 1 = 0 + 2x²
      (x²)² + 2x² + 1 = 2x²
      (x² + 1)² = 2x²
      x² + 1 = x √2
      x² - x√2 = -1
      x² - 2(x)(√2 / 2) = -1
      x² - 2(x)(1/√2) + ½ = -1 + ½
      x² - 2(x)(1/√2) + (1/√2)² = -½
      (x - 1/√2)² = -½
      x - 1/√2 = ±√(-½) = ± √(-1) / √2
      x = 1/√2 ± i/√2
      √i = 1/√2 (1 ± i)

    • @ConstantDerivative
      @ConstantDerivative Před 2 lety

      since it is a power of i, it lands on the unit circle on the complex plane

    • @kyzer422
      @kyzer422 Před rokem +1

      @@alexcarpentier5698 That's really interesting, I never realized that before.

    • @fart-man
      @fart-man Před rokem

      so -1, I, and sqrt(i) are all on the unit circle. I wonder if the fourth root of i is as well.

  • @mueezadam8438
    @mueezadam8438 Před 6 lety +51

    I like how you hold your microphone the whole time.

    • @blackpenredpen
      @blackpenredpen  Před 6 lety +6

      thanks!

    • @Xrelent
      @Xrelent Před 5 lety +1

      And two pens in the other hand. That blew my mind.

    • @kaegansloan3794
      @kaegansloan3794 Před 5 lety

      honestly though, it just truly added to the enjoyment of the video. He shows so much excitement when explaining and it altogether created a really good video

  • @vannypin
    @vannypin Před rokem +2

    Thank you for your video. There are two square roots of the imaginary unit (i), but what above the notation sqrt(i)? As I know, the notation sqrt(i) indicates the principle square root. And the answer should be the complex number with positive real part. Please correct me! Sorry for my English. I've learnt a lot from you.

  • @petermartin5030
    @petermartin5030 Před 2 měsíci

    To do it in your head notice that a complex number squared is required to give i. So its real part must cancel out. So it is something like 1+i all squared which is 1+2i-1, so that 1 squared cancels with i squared. So (1+i)/root(2) will do, as will minus the same thing.

  • @AstroHolden
    @AstroHolden Před 6 lety +99

    i may be complex, but 1 is still the loneliest number.

  • @traso56
    @traso56 Před 6 lety +76

    i don't care about the haters and their circle formulas, using various methos is really useful and gives more options, i know that formula but using this for fun is really nice

    • @blergblergblerg1343
      @blergblergblerg1343 Před 6 lety

      There is a method for determining square roots which uses a system of 3 equations on module, real part and imaginary part. It wasnt fully used here, and wasn't relevant in this case. This guy sucks at math and saying so doesn't make anyone a hater, just a skeptical person who knows a tiny bit about math

    • @Xandawesome
      @Xandawesome Před 6 lety +3

      Clearly this guy sucks at math even though he got the right answer

    • @ivanneto817
      @ivanneto817 Před 5 lety +7

      So you just proceeded to state that there is such a method and didn't explain the method or at least name it, then you said he sucks at math even though he got the right answer in simple steps. Nice.

  • @oscarkoning9325
    @oscarkoning9325 Před rokem

    I can see passion in your eyes keep it up

  • @leosheehan7574
    @leosheehan7574 Před 2 měsíci

    This is Incredible. Never would have thought of the system of equations created.

  • @TheAwesomeMister
    @TheAwesomeMister Před 5 lety +17

    Very understandable, couldn't be more detailed.
    And nice that you already did a video on the polar way ;).
    Keep up the good work.

  • @bensrandomshows1482
    @bensrandomshows1482 Před 3 lety +78

    does anyone else notice how oddly motion blurred he get when he's on the edge of the screen, and only the edge

    • @kzushii
      @kzushii Před 3 lety

      the camera's not in focus?

    • @mariabelleazemar7831
      @mariabelleazemar7831 Před 3 lety

      yesss I've noticed

    • @vizender
      @vizender Před 3 lety +3

      @@kzushii it does not look like because it just seems out of temporal sinc, not spatial distortion

  • @whiteeyedshadow8423
    @whiteeyedshadow8423 Před 8 měsíci

    the fact that this man made something so utterly incomprehensible make sense is incredible to me

  • @dhawaldhingra
    @dhawaldhingra Před 8 měsíci +1

    When a^4 = 1/4, there will be four values of a and not just two values like you explained. These values would be 1/√2, -1/√2, i/√2, -i/√2. Likewise, there will be four values of b as well.

    • @FastKnight401
      @FastKnight401 Před 6 měsíci

      True, but we're assuming a and b are real numbers

  • @hypercoder-gaming
    @hypercoder-gaming Před 2 lety +214

    Another way to solve the fourth root of four being equal to four is this:
    Sqrt(Sqrt(4))=x
    Sqrt(4)=2, so
    Sqrt(2)=x

    • @lc1777
      @lc1777 Před 2 lety +22

      He didn't even need to do all that things for finding A, it just required the simple observation that a = b or -a = -b
      This would mean 2a² = 1 and a = ± 1/√2

    • @user-cc3iu4mp7x
      @user-cc3iu4mp7x Před 2 lety +4

      The Best way for me is to think of complex numbers as vectors on a complex plane. And if you raise an imaginary nomber to some power you make a rotation.
      i^2 = i^(1+1) = -1 hense you make a 90 degree rotation anti-clockwise and went from the imaginary axis to the real one.
      i^0.5 = i^(1-0.5) means that you make a 45 degree rotation clockwise. Now you only need to decompose your vector.
      The real part is cos(45 deg), and the imaginary one is i*sin(45 deg).

    • @beeble2003
      @beeble2003 Před 2 lety +1

      @@lc1777 Yes, substituting a=±b from the first equation saves about five minutes of algebra compared to substituting b=1/2a from the second.

    • @pi_xi
      @pi_xi Před 2 lety

      @@lc1777 I had the same approach. Much easier.

    • @lc1777
      @lc1777 Před 2 lety

      @@beeble2003 yup

  • @harrygenderson6847
    @harrygenderson6847 Před 2 lety +28

    5:06 I noticed that not only are +1 and -1 solutions to a^4 = 1, but i and -i are too. More generally for a^n = 1, all nth roots of unity are solutions. Not that ignoring these solutions matters in this case, as they essentially just switch a and i*b but give the same final answers.

    • @sebm2334
      @sebm2334 Před 2 lety +10

      I dont think we need to consider a or b being i or -i since theyre respectively the real and imaginary parts of the solution were looking for, therefore a and b are real numbers

    • @woophereigo9755
      @woophereigo9755 Před 2 lety +1

      Then shut up

    • @ayushman1940
      @ayushman1940 Před 2 lety +4

      a and b are real they can't be i or -i

    • @ayushman1940
      @ayushman1940 Před 2 lety

      @@sebm2334 exactly

  • @montyhall2805
    @montyhall2805 Před 8 měsíci

    You can just turn "i" (rectangualr) to e^pi/2i (polar) and then just do exponentiation - something we all know. Then convert e^pi/4i back into rectangular. Looks like sqrts divides the rotation angle by 2.

  • @tonitalas1757
    @tonitalas1757 Před rokem

    Beautiful explanation!

  • @bubbao6209
    @bubbao6209 Před 3 lety +15

    2:47 is legendary

  • @Gmod2012lo1
    @Gmod2012lo1 Před 6 lety +402

    English is also not my motherlanguage and i understood you justy fine, no complains, ignore these morons :D, they should be thankful you didnt speak your language and just put subtitles

    • @JoaoVictor-gy3bk
      @JoaoVictor-gy3bk Před 5 lety +7

      Gmod2012lo1 english is not my mother language either, so it got me thinking: what if non-native english speakers understand other accents better when compared to native speakers?

    • @analuizafelixdesouza6336
      @analuizafelixdesouza6336 Před 5 lety +8

      @@JoaoVictor-gy3bk We really do. That's why I prefer being a non native English speaker.

    • @hayden6700
      @hayden6700 Před 5 lety +1

      @@JoaoVictor-gy3bk that doesn't make sense, nor is it true

    • @Matlockization
      @Matlockization Před 5 lety +1

      He was speaking bamboo English. Its when I get up in the morning and the memory is loading to the ram but it takes a short time so I'm incoherent in the mean time.

    • @notimportant6340
      @notimportant6340 Před 5 lety

      What is your mother tongue? I assume it is west Germanic because you made the typo "justy" which reminds me of German richtig. German? Dutch? Frisian? Afrikaans?

  • @AdonanS
    @AdonanS Před 10 měsíci

    That. Was. AWESOME!

  • @drewisbadden
    @drewisbadden Před rokem

    I have no idea what brought me to watch this, but I love it

  • @davidadegboye773
    @davidadegboye773 Před 5 lety +217

    Or you could just use polar form and the tiniest bit of trig.
    Complex multiplication is a rotation and a stretch, because the magnitude of i is 1, this case is just a rotation.
    i Is a 90° rotation counter clockwise from 1 so you need to find a number that you rotate twice to get 90°. That's 45° So sqrt(i)=cos(45)+isin(45) which is what you got

    • @egoreruamercy4056
      @egoreruamercy4056 Před 5 lety +1

      Nicely

    • @Sjobban112a
      @Sjobban112a Před 5 lety +22

      Well you missed out on the other solution there, which is rotation by 225º twice, i.e. √i = cos(225)+isin(225) = - [1/√2 + i/√2] (which is also in the video).
      All solutions to √i are on the form √i = cos(π*n + π/4) + isin(π*n + π/4), where n = 0, 1, 2 etc. Albeit they only result in two unique solutions: ± [1/√2 + i/√2].

    • @rallynub956
      @rallynub956 Před 5 lety +2

      @@Sjobban112a wouldnt it be sqrt (i) = cos (pi*n + (pi/4)) + isin (n*pi + (pi/4))? cos pi*n = 1, sin pi*n = 0, where n € Z? Sorry if confusing btw :P

    • @Kyulnjir
      @Kyulnjir Před 5 lety +4

      Yeh, but it's for beginners so many people wouldn't know about those

    • @Sjobban112a
      @Sjobban112a Před 5 lety +2

      @@rallynub956 You are right, I was typing a bit fast. Correcting my comment... :)

  • @quickg0ld446
    @quickg0ld446 Před 3 lety +10

    i love how happy he is when talking about it

  • @KenFromBarbie
    @KenFromBarbie Před rokem +1

    i didnt understand anything but ur voice is calming

  • @WhiteDragon103
    @WhiteDragon103 Před rokem +2

    Using a geometric interpretation, since i is unit length, its square root would be a unit vector (real, img) with half the angle. If i is at 90 degrees, sqrt(i) is at 45 degrees: 0.707, 0.707.

  • @norielsylvire4097
    @norielsylvire4097 Před 6 lety +44

    Did anyone realise he is holding an Ood translator sphere?

    • @blackpenredpen
      @blackpenredpen  Před 6 lety +6

      Dem Rottensoul u realized too late. czcams.com/video/STQPuHCiR8Y/video.html

  • @ck7671
    @ck7671 Před 7 lety +30

    it's obvious when you write i as e^i*pi/2 then you consider the sqrt as power 1/2 then the sqrt is e^i*pi/4

    • @manu_ovg
      @manu_ovg Před 3 lety

      The answer is squirt

    • @ricomariani
      @ricomariani Před 2 lety

      The other solution doesn't fall out that way, but on the other hand there are infinitely many solutions in polar form.

  • @KhoanTai-np9zj
    @KhoanTai-np9zj Před měsícem +1

    thanks for help me to know this

  • @pythondrink
    @pythondrink Před měsícem

    Wow! This was an interesting watch. I'm gonna try this on my own . Complex numbers are cool af.

  • @adventure.assistant
    @adventure.assistant Před 3 lety +14

    your energy is so uplifting. We love you. Keep doing what you're doing, with that little smile of yours you'll get anywhere :)

    • @frankcabanski9409
      @frankcabanski9409 Před 2 lety

      He has no energy. SJW's love his gimmick of holding a weird mic.

  • @bfzk5973
    @bfzk5973 Před 6 lety +45

    sweater is fresh my g

  • @MrSeezero
    @MrSeezero Před rokem +1

    That is an awesome way to solve that. You can also put i in a phasor-angle format, and take the positive square root of 1 which is 1 and divide 90 degrees by 2 to get 45 degrees and add 180 degrees to 45 degrees to get 225 degrees for the other square root of i. i; (1/__90 degrees)^0.5; 1/__45 degrees, 1/__225 degrees, cos(45 degrees) + sin(45 degrees)i, cos(225 degrees) + sin(225 degrees)i; (1/2)^0.5 + [(1/2)^0.5] i, -(1/2)^0.5 + [-(1/2)^0.5] i

  • @dhruvitasoni3658
    @dhruvitasoni3658 Před 3 měsíci +1

    It could be done in seconds using euler and polar form of a complex number
    √i=e^iπ/4=cos(π/4)+isin(π/4)
    =1/√2+i/√2