Mathematics
- Complex number, an extension of real numbers obtained by adjoining imaginary numbers
- Complex system, a system of interconnected simple parts that together exhibit a high degree of computational complexity from which emerges a higher order behavior
- Complex analysis, the study of functions of complex numbers
- An element of a complex algebra or field of sets
- Chain complex, a (possibly long) sequence of maps
- Simplicial complex, a kind of topological space that can be divided into fully adjacent triangles, or more generally, into simplices
- CW complex, or closure-finite weak complex, a kind of topological space, a generalization of the simplicial complex
- Line complex, a 3-dimensional family of lines in space
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“It is a monstrous thing to force a child to learn Latin or Greek or mathematics on the ground that they are an indispensable gymnastic for the mental powers. It would be monstrous even if it were true.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“Mathematics alone make us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we can always suppose in the case of an experiment that it is inexplicable because we don’t happen to have all the data. In mathematics we have all the data ... and yet we don’t understand. We always come back to the contemplation of our human wretchedness. What force is in relation to our will, the impenetrable opacity of mathematics is in relation to our intelligence.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)
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—Samuel Butler (1612–1680)