Definition:Complex Number/Also known as
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Complex Number: Also known as
Some soruces refer to a complex number as an imaginary number, but it is too easy to confuse this with a wholly imaginary number.
Hence this usage is not endorsed by $\mathsf{Pr} \infty \mathsf{fWiki}$.
Sources
- 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): complex number
- 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): complex number