El discreto encanto de la raíz cuadrada
- Amster, Pablo 1
- Cid, José Ángel 2
- 1 Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias y Naturales. Departamento de Matemática - IMAS-CONICET
- 2 Universidade de Vigo. Departamento de Matemáticas
ISSN: 1852-2890, 0326-8780
Year of publication: 2023
Volume: 38
Issue: 2
Pages: 16-27
Type: Article
More publications in: Revista de Educación Matemática (RevEM)
Abstract
We present a version for the general readership of our article (Amster y Cid, 2022) in which we show how the complex square root allows us to prove in a very simple manner various topological results in the plane, as deep as the Brouwer Fixed Point Theorem and the Invariance of Domain Theorem, as well as the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra.
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