Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit, almost an amphibian between being and non-being.


Quoted in F. Klein, Elementary Mathematics From an Advanced Standpoint (1932), Vol. 1


Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit, almost an amphibian between being and non-being.

Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit, almost an amphibian between being and non-being.

Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit, almost an amphibian between being and non-being.

Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit, almost an amphibian between being and non-being.