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Up till now, you have been told that you can only take the square root of a positive number, because every number was positive after you square it.
However, after given a new defined number, you can take the square root of a negative number. We called this new defined number "i", which stands for "imaginary" (we know it does not exist).
Complex numbers are the field of $\mathbb{C}$ numbers of $x +iy$, where x and y are real numbers and i is the imaginary unit.
We write complex number in the form of (x,y), which means $x + iy$
$i = \sqrt{-1}$, then $i^2 = -1$
'+' $\rightarrow (a,b) + (c,d) = (a+b, c+d)$
'$\times$' $\rightarrow (a,b) \times (c,d) = (ac-bd, ad+bc)$
$\sqrt{-9} = \sqrt{9(-1)} = \sqrt{9}i = 3i$
$\sqrt{-18} = \sqrt{18(-1)} = \sqrt{18}i = 3\sqrt{2}i$
Additive identity: '0' = (0,0)
Multiplication identity: '1' = (1,0)
Multiplication inverse: $(\frac{a}{a^2+b^2}, -\frac{b}{a^2+b^2})$
$i^n = 1, n = 4k, k \in \mathbb{Z}$
$i^n = i, n = 4k + 1, k \in \mathbb{Z}$
$i^n = -1, n = 4k + 2, k \in \mathbb{Z}$
$i^n = -i, n = 4k + 3, k \in \mathbb{Z}$
$2i + 5i = (2+5)i = 7i$
$(2i)(5i) = (2 \times 5)(i \times i) = 10(-1) = -10$
If a and b are real, and $z = a + bi$, then the complex number $\bar{z} = a - bi$. We can write a = Re(z), and b = Im(z)
$|\bar{z}| = |z|$
$|zw| = |z||w|$
$Re(z) < |z|+|w|$