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Podcast: The Stephen Wolfram Podcast
Episode: History of Science and Technology Q&A (June 2, 2021)
Description: Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about the history of science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here:Â https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa
Questions include: What appeared first in math, complex numbers or vectors? What is the relation between them? Would the square root of negatives be a problem if equations were developed with vectors instead of regular numbers? - ​Hi Wolfram. Can you tell a bit about the history of Real Variables, the Rational Numbers and why analysis was so important. Why not stick to integers. Why Cantor and Ded...