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Perhaps the original name (they were first called imaginary numbers) helped create a slight aura of mysticism. Perhaps it was difficult to depart from the Examples 31 notion that numbers are meant to represent measurements, and complex numbers did not readily fit into this way of thinking. Be that as it may, the extension of the number system to include complex numbers brought untold benefits to mathematics. Above all, and perhaps most miraculously, having introduced complex numbers merely to make all quadratic equations with real coefficients solvable, it turned out that all algebraic equations (even those with complex coefficients) became solvable.
Prob. {FI This "justification" is only heuristic but it gets us back to the rule of multiplication of probabilities, and in a context that is wholly different from the previous one. s Having agreed to interpret independence to mean that the rule of multiplication of probabilities is applicable, we go back to the loaded coin of Laplace. • Physicists (somewhat uncritically) actually identify probabilities with frequencies. There are all sorts of difficulties in such an approach since one must take limits as the number of trials becomes larger and larger.
S Having agreed to interpret independence to mean that the rule of multiplication of probabilities is applicable, we go back to the loaded coin of Laplace. • Physicists (somewhat uncritically) actually identify probabilities with frequencies. There are all sorts of difficulties in such an approach since one must take limits as the number of trials becomes larger and larger. Richard von Mises tried to axiomatize probability theory on the basis of frequencies in certain infinite sequences of trials that he calIed collectives.