the publications of the

books:
the imaginary quantities:
their geometrical
interpretation and the
book titled as: digram of
argand

by argand (1768-1822)
a brief context

To understand the significance

of the news, it is necessary to
understand a brief context of
how mathematics had been
developing in ancient times.

Why was mathematics created?

Mathematics were created as a way to

quantify our world: count trade,
measure land... etc

 the numbers
and their
evolution
Although the numbers were born
to quantify the world, after a
while the mathematicians found
themselves with a problem
labeled as impossible.
 The way to solve it was by separating
mathematics from the real world and inventing
numbers so fanciful that they were called
imaginary.

we had to separate math from reality to

understand how reality really works

 How were
quadratic
equations
solved before?
before, people solved quadratic equations in a very different way
than today, they saw algebra as part of geometry and therefore
when people solved a quadratic equation they saw it as a
geometric problem
Marcas de conteo
the mathematician omar khayyam said about it::

Thanks to this geometric way of

thinking about the equations,
mathematicians could not easily

find an answer to the cubic

equations since the negative
answers are fundamental for the
answers of this equation.