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René Descartes, who wrote about them in his La Géométrie in which he coined the term imaginary and meant it to be derogatory. The use of imaginary numbers was not widely accepted until the work of Leonhard Euler (1707-1783) and Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855). The geometric significance of complex numbers as points in a plane was first described by Caspar Wessel

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