Complex Analysis L05: Roots of Unity and Rational Powers of z @Eigensteve

Uploaded February 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

This video explains how to use the complex Logarithm, Log(z), and the exponential to compute fractional/rational powers of complex numbers. A special case are the n-th roots of the number 1, or the square root of i, etc...

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$Complex Analysis L05: Roots of Unity and Rational Powers of z This video explains how to use the complex Logarithm, Log(z), and the exponential to compute fractional/rational powers of complex numbers. A special case are the n-th roots of the number 1, or the square root of i, etc... @eigensteve on Twitter eigensteve.com databookuw.com This video was produced at the University of Washington$

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