The Webinar on How real are the complex numbers? took place on Thursday, September 15th, 2022 from 4 pm until 5 pm with Anita Rojas, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Chile, as our invited speaker. This virtual event was free and open to the general public.
The invited speaker started the virtual event by explaining what we know about the real numbers. Anita Rojas then presented the story of how the complex numbers were discovered. The speaker shared several applications of the complex numbers in physics, chemistry, engineering, dynamics and geometry. Anita Rojas also described what fractals, the Julia set and Riemann surfaces are and highlighted Maryam Mirzakhani’s work.
