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Complex number z is an ordered pair of real numbers (ab), where \(a,b\in \mathbb {R}\). The first number a is called the real part of the complex number \(z=(a,b)\) and is denoted by symbol \(\mathrm{Re}z\), while the second number of the pair b is called the imaginary part z and is denoted \(\mathrm{Im}z\)  [23]. A complex number of the form (a, 0), where the imaginary part is zero, is identified with the real number a, i. e. \((a,0)\equiv a\). This allows considering the set of all real numbers \(\mathbb {R}\) as s subset of set of complex numbers \(\mathbb {C}\).

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    Jean-Robert Argand (1768–1822)—French mathematician.

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    Abraham de Moivre (1667–1754)—English mathematician of French origin.

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    Hieronymus Cardanus (1501–1576)—Italian mathematician and philosopher.

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    Lodovico Ferrari (1522–1565)—Italian mathematician.

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    Niels Henrik Abel (1802–1829)—Norwegian mathematician.

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    Paolo Ruffini (1765–1822)—Italian mathematician.

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    Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1736–1813), French mathematician, mechanic and astronomer.

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    François Viète, seigneur de la Bigotière (1540–1603)—French mathematician.

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Kurgalin, S., Borzunov, S. (2020). Complex Numbers. In: The Discrete Math Workbook. Texts in Computer Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42221-9_7

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