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Imaginary numbers are numbers whose square is a negative number. They arose as a means of working with square roots of negative numbers; in fact, the first known mention of a square root of a negative number is a very brief one from a work called Stereometrica. It was written in the 1st century CE by a Greek mathematician, Heron of Alexandria. Imaginary (and thus, complex) numbers were not ever accepted widely, though, until the 1700s, because of the work of Euler and Gauss.

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