Week 8: March 27 - 31

Complex Numbers

Complex numbers are introduced as pairs of real numbers that obey certain rules for addition and multiplication. It is shown that this naturally leads to a geometric view of complex numbers, and that Newton’s method can be applied equally well to find the complex roots of polynomial equations.

Week 8 Notebook

NumPy

  • Complex numbers
  • meshgrid
  • Indexing using boolean arrays

Quiz 7: NumPy Arrays and Indexing

  • Array creation
  • Multi-dimensional arrays
  • Array indexing and slicing

Sample Quiz 7