Isaac Newton
N stands for natural/normal. it was the first set of numbers ever classified, and was actually only classified after imaginary and complex numbers, coz before that, there was no need.
The first person to write about them was Gerolamo Cardano in 1545, but he doesn't seem to have taken them seriously. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerolamo_Cardano . The first serious use of imaginary numbers (better, complex numbers) was by Rafael Bombelli, published in 1572. He used them as intermediate steps when solving cubic equations. See related link.
Rafael Bombelli is usually credited with discovering imaginary numbers in 1572. There were hints of the theory going back much further, perhaps beginning with Hero of Alexandria in the first century.
Imaginary numbers have a strange history. Heron of Alexandria (first Century AD) is thought to have conceived of these numbers but did not develop the idea. Others mathematicians, notably Gerolamo Cardano, came across them but it was Rafael Bombelli who first set down thye rules for manipulating them in 1572.
The 16th century Italian mathematician, Gerolamo Cardano was the first to use imaginary and complex numbers in his work on cubic equations.
Pythagoras was the 1st person who used the pi symbol first
The first time the symbol Pi was first used for Pi was in ancient Greece in their numbers. The symbol "π" was number 80 in Greece.
The material comes first because it is not a person who made it. The artist is only a person that uses the material for art.
The four numbers are:3.0886,-3.0886,3.0886*i and-3.0886*iwhere i is the imaginary square root of -1.The first two roots are real numbers.
Pierre
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.