A team of German physicists has built a fully working version of quantum mechanics that uses only real numbers. Complex ...

For all of the recent strides we’ve made in the math world, we’re forever crunching calculations in pursuit of deeper ...

This is where all the math that has been and is still being invented comes into play. Areas of pure math such as algebra, analysis, combinatorics and many others can be used—in some cases combined—to ...

Real and imaginary: The time-dependent Schrödinger equation formulated using complex numbers. (Courtesy: iStock/piranka) Complex numbers are essential to achieve the most accurate quantum-mechanical ...