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Imaginary numbers were first recognised in the first century CE by Heron of Alexandria but development was slow because "the establishment" did not consider these to be proper numbers. Gerolamo Cardano, in his work on finding roots of cubic equations in early 16th century CE, set out some of the rules for manipulating complex numbers. Rafael Bombelli set down the rules for multiplication of complex numbers later in that century. However there was no serious work done on these numbers for a long time: their name did not help. It was not until two of the giants of mathematics, Leonhard Euler and Carl Friedrich Gauss in the 18th century worked on them that they were accepted as worthy of attention by serious mathematicians! And the rest, as they say, is history!

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