ABSTRACT
The word "complex" was introduced in a well-meaning attempt to dispel the mystery surrounding " imaginary" or " impossible" numbers, and because two dimensions are more complex than one. By a strange quirk of history mathematicians first found "imaginary solutions" that cannot be ignored in formulas for solving cubic equations. Many mathematicians believe they discover mathematics, rather than invent it, just as astronomers discover stars and planets or chemists discover elements. One of the most famous events in the history of astronomy was the discovery of the planet Neptune by Adams and Leverrier in 1846. This "discovery" was really when Neptune was first recognized as a planet, because telescopes had swept the skies for more than two centuries before 1846, and undoubtedly somebody saw Neptune but took it for just another star. It has been written that the shortest and best way between two truths of the real domain often passes through the imaginary one.
