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Algebraic Identities - III
(a + b + c + d)^2
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is equal to
a^2 + b^2 + c^2 + d^2 + 2ab + 2ac + 2ad + 2bc + 2bd + 2cd
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Algebraic Identities - IV
(a + b - c)^2 = a^2 + b^2 + c^2 + 2ab - 2ac - 2bc
\text{gives this.}
(a - b + c)^2 = a^2 + b^2 + c^2 - 2ab + 2ac - 2bc
\text{gives this.}
(a - b - c)^2 = a^2 + b^2 + c^2 - 2ab - 2ac + 2bc
\text{gives this.}
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Binomial Theorem - Part I
In elementary algebra, the binomial theorem (or binomial expansion) describes the algebraic expansion of powers of a binomial. According to the theorem, it is possible to expand the polynomial
(x + y)^n
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into a sum involving terms of the form axbyc, where the exponents b and c are nonnegative integers with b + c = n, and the coefficient a of each term is a specific positive integer depending on n and b. For example, for n = 4,{\displaystyle (x+y)^{4}=x^{4}+4x^{3}y+6x^{2}y^{2}+4xy^{3}+y^{4}.}
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The coefficient a in the term of
ax^by^c
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is known as the binomial coefficient{\displaystyle {\tbinom {n}{b}}}
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{\displaystyle {\tbinom {n}{c}}}
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(the two have the same value). These coefficients for varying n and b can be arranged to form Pascal's triangle. These numbers also occur in combinatorics, where
{\displaystyle {\tbinom {n}{b}}}
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gives the number of different combinations (i.e. subsets) of b elements that can be chosen from an n-element set. Therefore{\displaystyle {\tbinom {n}{b}}}
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is usually pronounced as "n choose b".It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.
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Binomial Theorem - Part II
History
Special cases of the binomial theorem were known since at least the 4th century BC when Greek mathematician Euclid mentioned the special case of the binomial theorem for exponent n = 2. Greek mathematician Diophantus cubed various binomials, including
{\displaystyle x-1}
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. Indian mathematician Aryabhata's method for finding cube roots, from around 510 CE, suggests that he knew the binomial formula for exponent n=3.Binomial coefficients, as combinatorial quantities expressing the number of ways of selecting k objects out of n without replacement, were of interest to ancient Indian mathematicians. The earliest known reference to this combinatorial problem is the Chandaḥśāstra by the Indian lyricist Pingala (c. 200 BC), which contains a method for its solution. The commentator Halayudha from the 10th century AD explains this method. By the 6th century AD, the Indian mathematicians probably knew how to express this as a quotient
{\textstyle {\frac {n!}{(n-k)!k!}}}
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, and a clear statement of this rule can be found in the 12th century text Lilavati by Bhaskara.The first known formulation of the binomial theorem and the table of binomial coefficients appears in a work by Al-Karaji, quoted by Al-Samaw'al in his "al-Bahir". Al-Karaji described the triangular pattern of the binomial coefficients and also provided a mathematical proof of both the binomial theorem and Pascal's triangle, using an early form of mathematical induction. The Persian poet and mathematician Omar Khayyam was probably familiar with the formula to higher orders, although many of his mathematical works are lost. The binomial expansions of small degrees were known in the 13th century mathematical works of Yang Hui and also Chu Shih-Chieh. Yang Hui attributes the method to a much earlier 11th century text of Jia Xian, although those writings are now also lost.:
In 1544, Michael Stifel introduced the term "binomial coefficient" and showed how to use them to express
{\displaystyle (1+x)^{n}}
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in terms of{\displaystyle (1+x)^{n-1}}
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, via "Pascal's triangle". Blaise Pascal studied the eponymous triangle comprehensively in his Traité du triangle arithmétique. However, the pattern of numbers was already known to the European mathematicians of the late Renaissance, including Stifel, Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia, and Simon Stevin.Isaac Newton is generally credited with discovering the generalized binomial theorem, valid for any real exponent, in 1665. It was discovered independently in 1670 by James Gregory.
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Binomial Theorem - Part III
Statement
According to the theorem, the expansion of any nonnegative integer power n of the binomial x + y is a sum of the form where
{\displaystyle {\tbinom {n}{k}}}
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is a positive integer known as a binomial coefficient.This formula is also referred to as the binomial formula or the binomial identity. Using summation notation, it can be written more concisely as
{\displaystyle (x+y)^{n}=\sum _{k=0}^{n}{n \choose k}x^{n-k}y^{k}=\sum _{k=0}^{n}{n \choose k}x^{k}y^{n-k}.}
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The final expression follows from the previous one by the symmetry of x and y in the first expression, and by comparison it follows that the sequence of binomial coefficients in the formula is symmetrical,
{\textstyle {\binom {n}{k}}={\binom {n}{n-k}}.}
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Binomial Theorem - Part IV
According to the theorem, the expansion of any nonnegative integer power n of the binomial x + y is a sum of the form
{\displaystyle (x+y)^{n}={n \choose 0}x^{n}y^{0}+{n \choose 1}x^{n-1}y^{1}+{n \choose 2}x^{n-2}y^{2}+\cdots +{n \choose n-1}x^{1}y^{n-1}+{n \choose n}x^{0}y^{n},}
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{\displaystyle {\binom {n}{k}}}
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is a positive integer known as a binomial coefficient, defined as{\displaystyle {\binom {n}{k}}={\frac {n!}{k!\,(n-k)!}}={\frac {n(n-1)(n-2)\cdots (n-k+1)}{k(k-1)(k-2)\cdots 2\cdot 1}}.}
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Taylor Series - I
In mathematics, the Taylor series or Taylor expansion of a function is an infinite sum of terms that are expressed in terms of the function's derivatives at a single point. For most common functions, the function and the sum of its Taylor series are equal near this point. Taylor series are named after Brook Taylor, who introduced them in 1715. A Taylor series is also called a Maclaurin series when 0 is the point where the derivatives are considered, after Colin Maclaurin, who made extensive use of this special case of Taylor series in the 18th century.
The partial sum formed by the first n + 1 terms of a Taylor series is a polynomial of degree n that is called the nth Taylor polynomial of the function. Taylor polynomials are approximations of a function, which become generally more accurate as n increases. Taylor's theorem gives quantitative estimates on the error introduced by the use of such approximations. If the Taylor series of a function is convergent, its sum is the limit of the infinite sequence of the Taylor polynomials. A function may differ from the sum of its Taylor series, even if its Taylor series is convergent. A function is analytic at a point x if it is equal to the sum of its Taylor series in some open interval (or open disk in the complex plane) containing x. This implies that the function is analytic at every point of the interval (or disk).
Definition
The Taylor series of a real or complex-valued function f (x), that is infinitely differentiable at a real or complex number a, is the power series
{\displaystyle f(a)+{\frac {f'(a)}{1!}}(x-a)+{\frac {f''(a)}{2!}}(x-a)^{2}+{\frac {f'''(a)}{3!}}(x-a)^{3}+\cdots =\sum _{n=0}^{\infty }{\frac {f^{(n)}(a)}{n!}}(x-a)^{n}.}
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Here, n! denotes the factorial of n. The function
{f}^{(n)}(a)
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denotes the nth derivative of f evaluated at the point a. The derivative of order zero of f is defined to be f itself and{(x - a)}^0
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and 0! are both defined to be 1. This series can be written by using sigma notation, as in the right side formula. With a = 0, the Maclaurin series takes the form:{\displaystyle f(0)+{\frac {f'(0)}{1!}}x+{\frac {f''(0)}{2!}}x^{2}+{\frac {f'''(0)}{3!}}x^{3}+\cdots =\sum _{n=0}^{\infty }{\frac {f^{(n)}(0)}{n!}}x^{n}.}
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Taylor Series - II
The Taylor series of any polynomial is the polynomial itself.
The Maclaurin series of 1 - x is the geometric series
{\displaystyle 1+x+x^{2}+x^{3}+\cdots .}
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So, by substituting x for
\frac{1}{1 - x}
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, the Taylor series of{\displaystyle 1-(x-1)+(x-1)^{2}-(x-1)^{3}+\cdots .}
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By integrating the above Maclaurin series, we find the Maclaurin series of ln(1 - x), where ln denotes the natural logarithm:
{\displaystyle -x-{\tfrac {1}{2}}x^{2}-{\tfrac {1}{3}}x^{3}-{\tfrac {1}{4}}x^{4}-\cdots .}
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The corresponding Taylor series of ln x at a = 1 is
{\displaystyle (x-1)-{\tfrac {1}{2}}(x-1)^{2}+{\tfrac {1}{3}}(x-1)^{3}-{\tfrac {1}{4}}(x-1)^{4}+\cdots ,}
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{\displaystyle \ln a+{\frac {1}{a}}(x-a)-{\frac {1}{a^{2}}}{\frac {\left(x-a\right)^{2}}{2}}+\cdots .}
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Maclaurin series
The Maclaurin series of the exponential function
e^x
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is{\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}\sum _{n=0}^{\infty }{\frac {x^{n}}{n!}}&={\frac {x^{0}}{0!}}+{\frac {x^{1}}{1!}}+{\frac {x^{2}}{2!}}+{\frac {x^{3}}{3!}}+{\frac {x^{4}}{4!}}+{\frac {x^{5}}{5!}}+\cdots \\&=1+x+{\frac {x^{2}}{2}}+{\frac {x^{3}}{6}}+{\frac {x^{4}}{24}}+{\frac {x^{5}}{120}}+\cdots .\end{aligned}}}
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The above expansion holds because the derivative of
e^x
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with respect to x is alsoe^x,
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ande^0
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equals 1. This leaves the terms(x - 0)^n
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in the numerator and n! in the denominator of each term in the infinite sum.It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.
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Complex Number
Complex numbers are helpful in finding the square root of negative numbers. The concept of complex numbers was first referred to in the 1st century by a greek mathematician, Hero of Alexandria when he tried to find the square root of a negative number. But he merely changed the negative into positive and simply took the numeric root value. Further, the real identity of a complex number was defined in the 16th century by Italian mathematician Gerolamo Cardano, in the process of finding the negative roots of cubic and quadratic polynomial expressions.
Complex numbers have applications in many scientific research, signal processing, electromagnetism, fluid dynamics, quantum mechanics, and vibration analysis. Here we can understand the definition, terminology, visualization of complex numbers, properties, and operations of complex numbers.
What are Complex Numbers?
A complex number is the sum of a real number and an imaginary number. A complex number is of the form a + ib and is usually represented by z. Here both a and b are real numbers. The value 'a' is called the real part which is denoted by Re(z), and 'b' is called the imaginary part Im(z). Also, ib is called an imaginary number.
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i
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i^2 = -1
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i^3 = -i
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i^4 = 1
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i^5 = i
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Value of i
It turns out that arithmetically,
i^2=-1
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. In other words, the value of i is the square root of −1. For now, don’t ask how! As we said earlier, the various different parts of the puzzle that is Complex Numbers will fall into place as you delve deeper into this subject.At this point, just keep in mind that:-
a) i is a non-real number (it lies outside the Real set).
b) i represents one unit perpendicular to the Real direction.
c) yi represents y units perpendicular to the Real direction
d) x+iy represents the point (x, y)
e) i is the square root of -1, or,
i^2=-1
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.When we say that i is a non-real number, we do not mean that i does not exist or is a figment of our imagination. We mean to say that i is non-real in the sense that it does not like in the Real set. However, it is a perfectly valid mathematical entity. i is also known by the name "iota".
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Operation on Complex numbers
The various operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, division of natural numbers can also be performed for complex numbers also. The details of the various arithmetic operations of complex numbers are as follows.
Addition of Complex Numbers
Th addition of complex numbers is similar to the addition of natural numbers. Here in complex numbers, the real part is added to the real part and the imaginary part is added to the imaginary part. For two complex numbers of the form
z_1 = a + id
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z_2 = c + id
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,z_1 + z_2 = (a + c) + i(b + d)
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.The complex numbers follow all the following properties of addition.
Closure Law: The sum of two complex numbers is also a complex number. For two complex numbers
z_1 \text {and} z_2
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,z_1 + z_2
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Operation of Complex Numbers - II
Commutative Law: For two complex numbers
z_1,z_2
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isz_1 + z_2 = z_2 + z_1
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.Associative Law: For the given three complex numbers
z_1, z_2, z_3
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z_1 + (z_2 + z_3) = (z_1 + z_2) + z_3
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Additive Identity: For a complex number
z = a + ib
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, there exists0 = 0 + i0
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, such thatz + 0 = 0 + z = 0
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.Additive Inverse: For the complex number
z = a + ib
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, there exists a complex number-z = -a -ib
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such thatz + (-z) = (-z) + z = 0
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Subtraction of Complex Numbers
The subtraction of complex numbers follows a similar process of subtraction of natural numbers. Here for any two complex numbers, the subtraction is separately performed across the real part and then the subtraction is performed across the imaginary part. For the complex numbers
z_1 = a + ib, z_2 = c + id
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z_1 - z_2 = (a - c) + i(b - d)
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Multiplication of Complex Numbers
The multiplication of complex numbers is slightly different from the multiplication of natural numbers. Here we need to use the formula of
i^2 = -1
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.For the two complex numbers
z_1 = a + ib, z_2 = c + id
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z_1 \cdot z_2 = (ca - bd) + i(ad + bc)
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.The multiplication of complex numbers is polar form is slightly different from the above mentioned form of multiplication. Here the absolute values of the two complex numbers are multiplied and their arguments are added to obtain the product of the complex numbers.
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Multiplication of Complex Numbers - II
The product of two complex numbers is computed as follows:
{\displaystyle (a+bi)\cdot (c+di)=ac-bd+(ad+bc)i.}
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For example,
{\displaystyle (3+2i)(4-i)=3\cdot 4-(2\cdot (-1))+(3\cdot (-1)+2\cdot 4)i=14+5i.}
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In particular, this includes as a special case the fundamental formula
{\displaystyle i^{2}=i\cdot i=-1.}
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This formula distinguishes the complex number i from any real number, since the square of any (negative or positive) real number x always satisfies
{\displaystyle x^{2}\geq 0}
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.This formula distinguishes the complex number i from any real number, since the square of any (negative or positive) real number x always satisfies
{\displaystyle x^{2}\geq 0}
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.With this definition of multiplication and addition, familiar rules for the arithmetic of rational or real numbers continue to hold for complex numbers. More precisely, the distributive property, the commutative properties (of addition and multiplication) hold. Therefore, the complex numbers form an algebraic structure known as a field, the same way as the rational or real numbers do.
With this definition of multiplication and addition, familiar rules for the arithmetic of rational or real numbers continue to hold for complex numbers. More precisely, the distributive property, the commutative properties (of addition and multiplication) hold. Therefore, the complex numbers form an algebraic structure known as a field, the same way as the rational or real numbers do.
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More on Complex numbers : I
For any complex number z = x + yi , the product
{\displaystyle z\cdot {\overline {z}}=(x+iy)(x-iy)=x^{2}+y^{2}}
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is a non-negative real number. This allows to define the absolute value (or modulus or magnitude) of z to be the square root
{\displaystyle |z|={\sqrt {x^{2}+y^{2}}}.}
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By Pythagoras' theorem,
{\displaystyle |z|}
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is the distance from the origin to the point representing the complex number z in the complex plane. In particular, the circle of radius one around the origin consists precisely of the numbers z such that
{\displaystyle |z|=1}.
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If
{\displaystyle z=x=x+0i}
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{\displaystyle |z|=|x|}
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More on Complex Numbers - II
Using the conjugate, the reciprocal of a nonzero complex number
{\displaystyle z=x+yi}
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can be computed to be
{\displaystyle {\frac {1}{z}}={\frac {\bar {z}}{z{\bar {z}}}}={\frac {\bar {z}}{|z|^{2}}}={\frac {x-yi}{x^{2}+y^{2}}}={\frac {x}{x^{2}+y^{2}}}-{\frac {y}{x^{2}+y^{2}}}i.}
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Using the conjugate, the reciprocal of a nonzero complex number
{\displaystyle z=x+yi}
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{\displaystyle {\frac {1}{z}}={\frac {\bar {z}}{z{\bar {z}}}}={\frac {\bar {z}}{|z|^{2}}}={\frac {x-yi}{x^{2}+y^{2}}}={\frac {x}{x^{2}+y^{2}}}-{\frac {y}{x^{2}+y^{2}}}i.}
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More on Complex Numbers - III
More generally, the division of an arbitrary complex number
{\displaystyle w=u+vi}
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{\displaystyle z=x+yi}
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{\displaystyle {\frac {w}{z}}={\frac {w{\bar {z}}}{|z|^{2}}}={\frac {(u+vi)(x-iy)}{x^{2}+y^{2}}}={\frac {ux+vy}{x^{2}+y^{2}}}+{\frac {vx-uy}{x^{2}+y^{2}}}i.}
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De Moivre's formula
In mathematics, de Moivre's formula (also known as de Moivre's theorem and de Moivre's identity) states that for any real number x and integer n it holds that
{\displaystyle {\big (}\cos x+i\sin x{\big )}^{n}=\cos nx+i\sin nx,}
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(i^2 = -1)
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.The formula is named after Abraham de Moivre, although he never stated it in his works. The expression cos x + i sin x is sometimes abbreviated to cis x.
The formula is important because it connects complex numbers and trigonometry. By expanding the left hand side and then comparing the real and imaginary parts under the assumption that x is real, it is possible to derive useful expressions for cos nx and sin nx in terms of cos x and sin x.
As written, the formula is not valid for non-integer powers n. However, there are generalizations of this formula valid for other exponents. These can be used to give explicit expressions for the nth roots of unity, that is, complex numbers z such that
z^n = 1.
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Using the standard extensions of the sine and cosine functions to complex numbers, the formula is valid even when x is an arbitrary complex number.
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De Moivre's formula - II
Example
For
{\displaystyle x=30^{\circ }}
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{\displaystyle n=2},
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,{\displaystyle \left(\cos(30^{\circ })+i\sin(30^{\circ })\right)^{2}=\cos(2\cdot 30^{\circ })+i\sin(2\cdot 30^{\circ }),}
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{\displaystyle \left({\frac {\sqrt {3}}{2}}+{\frac {i}{2}}\right)^{2}={\frac {1}{2}}+{\frac {i{\sqrt {3}}}{2}}.}
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In this example, it is easy to check the validity of the equation by multiplying out the left side.
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Relation to Euler's formula
De Moivre's formula is a precursor to Euler's formula
{\displaystyle e^{ix}=\cos x+i\sin x,}
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with x expressed in radians rather than degrees, which establishes the fundamental relationship between the trigonometric functions and the complex exponential function.
One can derive de Moivre's formula using Euler's formula and the exponential law for integer powers
{\displaystyle \left(e^{ix}\right)^{n}=e^{inx},}
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since Euler's formula implies that the left side is equal to
{\displaystyle \left(\cos x+i\sin x\right)^{n}}
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{\displaystyle \cos nx+i\sin nx.}
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Powers and Roots
The n-th power of a complex number can be computed using de Moivre's formula, which is obtained by repeatedly applying the above formula for the product:
{\displaystyle z^{n}=\underbrace {z\cdot \dots \cdot z} _{n{\text{ factors}}}=(r(\cos \varphi +i\sin \varphi ))^{n}=r^{n}\,(\cos n\varphi +i\sin n\varphi ).}
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For example, the first few powers of the imaginary unit i are
{\displaystyle i,i^{2}=-1,i^{3}=-i,i^{4}=1,i^{5}=i,\dots }
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The n nth roots of a complex number z are given by
{\displaystyle z^{1/n}={\sqrt[{n}]{r}}\left(\cos \left({\frac {\varphi +2k\pi }{n}}\right)+i\sin \left({\frac {\varphi +2k\pi }{n}}\right)\right)}
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0 \leq k ≤ n - 1
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The History of this Theorem
In the 18th century complex numbers gained wider use, as it was noticed that formal manipulation of complex expressions could be used to simplify calculations involving trigonometric functions. For instance, in 1730 Abraham de Moivre noted that the identities relating trigonometric functions of an integer multiple of an angle to powers of trigonometric functions of that angle could be re-expressed by the following de Moivre's formula:
{\displaystyle (\cos \theta +i\sin \theta )^{n}=\cos n\theta +i\sin n\theta .}
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Euler's formula relates the complex exponential function of an imaginary argument, which can be thought of as describing uniform circular motion in the complex plane, to the cosine and sine functions, geometrically its projections onto the real and imaginary axes, respectively.
In 1748, Euler went further and obtained Euler's formula of complex analysis:
{\displaystyle e^{i\theta }=\cos \theta +i\sin \theta }
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by formally manipulating complex power series and observed that this formula could be used to reduce any trigonometric identity to much simpler exponential identities.
The idea of a complex number as a point in the complex plane was first described by Danish–Norwegian mathematician Caspar Wessel in 1799, although it had been anticipated as early as 1685 in Wallis's A Treatise of Algebra.
The English mathematician G.H. Hardy remarked that Gauss was the first mathematician to use complex numbers in "a really confident and scientific way" although mathematicians such as Norwegian Niels Henrik Abel and Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi were necessarily using them routinely before Gauss published his 1831 treatise.
Augustin-Louis Cauchy and Bernhard Riemann together brought the fundamental ideas of complex analysis to a high state of completion, commencing around 1825 in Cauchy's case.
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More on Complex Numbers
For any complex number z, with absolute value
{\displaystyle r=|z|}
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{\displaystyle \varphi }
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, the equation{\displaystyle z=r(\cos \varphi +i\sin \varphi )}
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{\textstyle z=r\operatorname {\mathrm {cis} } \varphi }.
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In electronics, one represents a phasor with amplitude r and phase
\varphi
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in angle notation:{\displaystyle z=r\angle \varphi .}
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If two complex numbers are given in polar form, the product and division can be computed as
{\displaystyle z_{1}z_{2}=r_{1}r_{2}(\cos(\varphi _{1}+\varphi _{2})+i\sin(\varphi _{1}+\varphi _{2})).}
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{\displaystyle {\frac {z_{1}}{z_{2}}}={\frac {r_{1}}{r_{2}}}\left(\cos(\varphi _{1}-\varphi _{2})+i\sin(\varphi _{1}-\varphi _{2})\right),{\text{if }}z_{2}\neq 0.}
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(These are a consequence of the trigonometric identities for the sine and cosine function.) In other words, the absolute values are multiplied and the arguments are added to yield the polar form of the product. The picture at the right illustrates the multiplication of
{\displaystyle (2+i)(3+i)=5+5i.}
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Because the real and imaginary part of 5 + 5i are equal, the argument of that number is 45 degrees,
or
\frac{\pi}{4}}
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.Thus, the formula
{\displaystyle {\frac {\pi }{4}}=\arctan \left({\frac {1}{2}}\right)+\arctan \left({\frac {1}{3}}\right)}
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\pi
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