RE: Education (Was Re: Techwriting After the Boom)

[Kim Roper <kim -dot- roper -at- pixelink -dot- com>]

> I asked the instructor if imaginary
> numbers had any application in the real world, and he said 
> (paraphrasing
> here), "yes, they use it determining cat scans, and that's 
> how they found
> the double helix on DNA."

Complex mathematics (the stuff with the imaginary numbers) is fundamental to
electrical engineering and circuit design.

Cheers ... Kim
kim.roper at pixelink.com
http://www.pixelink.com/

(Complex mathematics:  It's all fun and games until someone loses an "i".) 

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