WILLIAMSTOWN -- William Wootters has a conundrum -- a mathematical conundrum. Wootters is a physics professor at Williams College, and on Thursday he's one of the presenters of the Williams Faculty ...

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Imaginary numbers began as a desperate solution to equations that seemed unsolvable. In the 1500s, Italian mathematicians working on cubic equations encountered the square root of negative one — a ...