MATHEMATICA TUTORIAL: Complex numbers
www.cfm.brown.edu › am33 › MathematicaNov 16, 2021 · It was Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777--1855) who introduced the term complex number. Cauchy, a French contemporary of Gauss, extended the concept of complex numbers to the notion of complex functions. University of Rhode Island professor Orlando Merino (born in 1954) has written an essay on history of discovery of complex numbers.