WHY THE SQUARE ROOT OF A NEGATIVE NUMBER IS A COMPLEX NUMBER?

|( )| Why is the square root of -4 = 2i ?

|( )| Why does  the square root of any negative number  involve an i term?

|( )| Well…..turns out that whenever you are even talking about taking the square root of a negative number, you are actually moving in a circular path (complex plane).

|( )| If you were moving  on a linear track or dealing with anything increasing in a linear fashion…..you would be dealing with numbers like 1,2,3,4 etc  or even -1,-2, -3 etc.

|( )| None of these numbers  when squared will give one the answer as -4.

|( )| Even a negative number like -2 when squared will not give -4.

|( )|  -2 x-2  will yield 4.

|( )| Only a number like 2i when squared will yield -4 as the anwer.

|( )| But then isn’t a number like 2i itself a hint that you are not moving in a linear path and that your path is complex (completely circular maybe).

|( )| Thus a number like square root of -4 makes sense only on the complex plane (circular of periodic path).

|( )| It doesn’t make sense on the linear path.

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I hardly understood Math in school. In fact was on the verge of dropping the subject I loved the most because as much as I loved the theory of it, I could not understand the math involved in it. However I loved the subject too much to be able to live without. Hopelessly, I was continuing my love-affair with it. 

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