{"id":24886,"date":"2021-03-16T00:00:13","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T00:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toposuranos.com\/material\/?p=24886"},"modified":"2025-03-02T19:53:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T19:53:35","slug":"numerical-sets-from-natural-to-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/toposuranos.com\/material\/en\/numerical-sets-from-natural-to-complex\/","title":{"rendered":"Numerical Sets: From Natural to Complex Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!DOCTYPE html> <html lang=\"en\"> <head>     <meta charset=\"UTF-8\">     <meta name=\"description\" content=\"Detailed exploration of numerical sets, starting with natural numbers and extending to complex numbers.\">     <meta name=\"keywords\" content=\"Mathematics, Natural Numbers, Integers, Rational Numbers, Real Numbers, Complex Numbers, Algebra, Geometry\">     <meta name=\"author\" content=\"Giorgio Reveco\">     <title>A First Approach to Numerical Sets &#8211; ToposUranos.com<\/title> <\/head> <body> <\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color:#F3F3F3; padding:20px;\">\n<center><\/p>\n<h1>A First Approach to Numerical Sets: From Naturals to Complex<\/h1>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em><strong>Summary:<\/strong><\/br>In this class, we will explore how natural numbers can be used as the basis for constructing other numerical sets to overcome certain operational limitations. We will start with the integers, which allow us to carry out subtractions extensively. Then, we will move on to rational numbers, which provide us with the tool of division in a complete way. Subsequently, we will delve into real numbers to be able to work with n-th roots, and we will mention how complex numbers are introduced to address specific scenarios with n-th roots. Through these developments, it will be understood how each new numerical set arises to solve problems inherent to the previous one.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong><u>Learning Objectives<\/u>:<\/strong><br \/>Upon completing this class, the student will be able to:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Identify<\/strong> the basic properties of natural numbers, integers, and rational numbers.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Interpret<\/strong> the properties and basic operations that are inherited or modified when transitioning from one numerical set to another.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Compare<\/strong> the properties of different numerical sets and how they relate to each other.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong><u>TABLE OF CONTENTS<\/u><\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"#1\">Introduction<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"#2\">Properties of Natural Numbers<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"#3\">Transition from Natural Numbers to Integers<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"#4\">The Leap to Rational Numbers<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"#5\">Real and Irrational Numbers<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"#6\">The Complex: The Algebraic Clause of Real Numbers<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe class=\"lazyload\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PfK-pIlyCj4\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Introduction<\/h2>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PfK-pIlyCj4&amp;t=96s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>The real numbers, along with other numerical sets that we will explore in this class,<\/strong><\/span><\/a> are introduced by expanding natural numbers. It happens that, with any two natural numbers, it is not always possible to perform subtraction or division operations, and these expansions aim to solve this inconvenience.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; color: #000000;\">During this class, we will review the <a href=\"https:\/\/toposuranos.com\/operaciones-con-numeros-naturales\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>operations and properties of natural numbers,<\/strong><\/a> and on this basis, we will move towards the construction of all other numerical sets, until reaching real numbers and beyond.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"2\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Properties of Natural Numbers<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PfK-pIlyCj4&amp;t=214s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">When addressing operations with natural numbers,<\/span><\/strong><\/a> we mainly refer to addition and multiplication, along with their respective inverse operations. The following summarizes these properties:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; color: #000000;\">Given that <span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">a,b,c\\in\\mathbb{N},<\/span> it is verified that:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"text-align: justify; color: #000000;\">\n<td>1.     <\/td>\n<td><span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">a + b = b + a<\/span>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"text-align: left; color: #000000;\">\n<td>2.     <\/td>\n<td><span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">a \\pm (b \\pm c) = (a\\pm b)\\pm c <\/span> (in the case of subtraction, it is valid as long as it is well-defined)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"text-align: left; color: #000000;\">\n<td>3.     <\/td>\n<td><span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">a\\cdot b = b \\cdot a <\/span>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"text-align: left; color: #000000;\">\n<td>4.     <\/td>\n<td><span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">a\\cdot(b\\cdot c)= (a\\cdot b)\\cdot c <\/span>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"text-align: left; color: #000000;\">\n<td>5.<span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">\\;\\;\\;\\;\\;<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">a\\cdot b = a \\leftrightarrow b=1 <\/span>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"text-align: left; color: #000000;\">\n<td>6.<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">\\displaystyle \\frac{a}{b}\\in\\mathbb{N} \\leftrightarrow (\\exists k\\in\\mathbb{N})(a=b\\cdot k) <\/span>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"text-align: left; color: #000000;\">\n<td>7.<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">a\\cdot(b+c)=a\\cdot b + a \\cdot c <\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a name=\"3\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Transition from Natural Numbers to Integers<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PfK-pIlyCj4&amp;t=418s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The first aspect to note is that in the case of sums:<\/span><\/strong><\/a> <span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">(\\forall a,b\\in\\mathbb{N})(a+b\\in\\mathbb{N})<\/span>, while for subtractions: <span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">(\\forall a,b\\in\\mathbb{N})(a+b\\in\\mathbb{N} \\leftrightarrow a\\gt b)<\/span>. An inconvenience arises when the subtraction between two natural numbers <span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">a<\/span> and <span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">b<\/span> does not make sense if <span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">a\\leq b<\/span>; to remedy this situation, natural numbers are expanded to the set of integers, where subtractions of this nature acquire a well-defined value. We denote this new set of <strong>integers<\/strong> with the letter <span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">\\mathbb{Z}<\/span>, and it consists of all natural numbers, their additive inverses, and zero.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; color: #000000;\"><span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">\\mathbb{Z} = \\{\\cdots, -3,-2,-1,0,1,2,3,\\cdots \\}<\/span>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; color: #000000;\">Integers inherit all the properties and operations of natural numbers, with an extension on the second property, and the notions of inverse and additive neutral are introduced.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"text-align: left; color: #000000;\">\n<td>2*.<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">a \\pm (b \\pm c) = (a\\pm b) \\pm c <\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"text-align: left; color: #000000;\">\n<td>8.<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">(\\forall a\\in\\mathbb{Z})(\\exists ! b\\in\\mathbb{Z})(a+b=0 \\leftrightarrow b=-a)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"text-align: left; color: #000000;\">\n<td>9.<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">(\\forall a\\in\\mathbb{Z})(\\exists ! b\\in\\mathbb{Z})(a+b=a \\leftrightarrow b=0)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; color: #000000;\">The element <span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">b=-a<\/span> is what we call the <strong>additive inverse<\/strong> of <span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">a<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"4\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>The Leap to Rational Numbers<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PfK-pIlyCj4&amp;t=755s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">At this point the only operation that remains undefined is division.<\/span><\/strong><\/a> To solve this we will expand upon the set of integers to the set of rational numbers, which will be given by the following set:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; color: #000000;\"><span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">\\mathbb{Q}=\\left\\{a= \\displaystyle\\frac{n}{m}\\;|\\;n,m\\in\\mathbb{Z}\\wedge m\\neq 0 \\right\\}<\/span>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; color: #000000;\">This acquires a new property<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"text-align: justify; color: #000000;\">\n<td>10.<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">(\\forall a \\in \\mathbb{Q}\\setminus\\{0\\})(\\exists ! b \\in \\mathbb{Q})<\/span> <span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">\\left[(a\\cdot b = 1) \\leftrightarrow \\left( b = \\displaystyle \\frac{1}{a} = a^{-1} \\right)\\right]<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"text-align: justify; color: #000000;\">\n<td colspan=\"2\">Every non-zero rational has a multiplicative inverse. The multiplicative inverse of <span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">a<\/span> is <span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">a^{-1}<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; color: #000000;\">With these numbers, operations and properties, new operations with their properties are defined. In these, the nth power of a rational <span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">q<\/span> is defined through<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; color: #000000;\"><span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">q^n = \\underbrace{q\\cdot q \\cdot \\cdots \\cdot q}_{n\\;veces};<\/span> with <span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">n\\in\\mathbb{N}<\/span>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; color: #000000;\"><span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">q^{-n}= \\displaystyle \\frac{1}{q^n}<\/span>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; color: #000000;\">Note that, from this, and whenever <span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">q\\neq 0<\/span>, we can say that<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; color: #000000;\"><span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">q^0 = 1<\/span>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; color: #000000;\">Moreover, whenever zero divisions appear, given any two rationals <span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">a,b<\/span> , and two integers <span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">n,m<\/span> the following properties will be fulfilled:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"text-align: justify; color: #000000;\">\n<td>11.<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">a^n \\cdot a^m = a^{n+m} <\/span>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"text-align: justify; color: #000000;\">\n<td>12.<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">(a^n)^m = a^{n\\cdot m} <\/span>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"text-align: justify; color: #000000;\">\n<td>13.<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">(a\\cdot b)^n = a^{n} \\cdot a^{m} <\/span>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"text-align: justify; color: #000000;\">\n<td>14.<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">\\left(\\displaystyle \\frac{a}{a}\\right)^n = \\frac{a^n}{a^n} <\/span>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"text-align: justify; color: #000000;\">\n<td>15.<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">\\displaystyle \\frac{a^n}{a^m} = a^{n-m} = \\frac{1}{a^{m-n}} <\/span>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a name=\"5\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Real and Irrational Numbers<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PfK-pIlyCj4&amp;t=1031s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Just as the operation of subtraction (inverse of addition) and division<\/span><\/strong><\/a> (inverse of multiplication) made it necessary to expand the natural numbers to integers and rationals, respectively, to form well-defined operations, similarly occurs with powers. The inverse operation of the <span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">n<\/span>-th power is the <span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">n<\/span>-th root.<\/p>\n<h3>Definition of Root<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PfK-pIlyCj4&amp;t=1071s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Let <span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">n<\/span> be an integer greater than 1<\/span><\/strong><\/a> and <span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">p,q<\/span> any rational numbers, the <span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">n<\/span>-th root of <span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">q<\/span> is defined, which we represent through the following rules:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"text-align: justify; color: #000000;\">\n<td>16.<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">q=0 \\rightarrow \\sqrt[n]{q} = 0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"text-align: justify; color: #000000;\">\n<td>17.<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">q \\gt 0 \\rightarrow \\left[ \\sqrt[n]{q} = p \\leftrightarrow p^n = q \\right]<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"text-align: justify; color: #000000;\">\n<td>18.<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\"> \\left[ q \\lt 0 \\wedge n {\\;is\\;odd} \\right]\\rightarrow \\left[ \\sqrt[n]{q} = p \\leftrightarrow p^n = q \\right]<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; color: #000000;\">In summary, the <span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">n<\/span>-th root of <span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">q<\/span> is a number <span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">p<\/span> such that, when raised to <span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">n<\/span>, it gives you back the number <span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">q<\/span>. In these cases, when <span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">n=2<\/span>, instead of writing <span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">\\sqrt[2]{q}<\/span>, for simplicity we write <span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">\\sqrt{q}.<\/span>\n<h3>The Emergence of Irrational Numbers<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PfK-pIlyCj4&amp;t=1216s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">At this point, we wonder<\/span><\/strong><\/a> is the n-th root well-defined for all elements of <span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">\\mathbb{Q}<\/span>? The truth is that, although not so evident (compared to what we saw with subtraction and division), there are rationals that do not have a rational n-th root. To see this, it is enough to review the following example:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; color: #000000;\"><em><strong><span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">\\sqrt{2}<\/span> is not a rational number.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; color: #000080;\"><strong>PROOF<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; color: #000000;\">We will prove this by reduction to the absurd.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; color: #000000;\">Suppose that <span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">\\sqrt{2}<\/span> is a rational number, that is, there are <span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">p,q\\in\\mathbb{Z}<\/span>, with <span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">q\\neq 0,<\/span> such that <span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">\\sqrt{2}=p\/q,<\/span> and that it has also been simplified until becoming irreducible. If we do so then we can say that<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; color: #000000;\"><span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">2 = \\left(\\sqrt{2} \\right)^2 =\\displaystyle \\frac{p^2}{q^2} = <\/span> <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">\\left(\\displaystyle \\frac{p}{q}\\right)^2<\/span>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; color: #000000;\">But this contradicts the fact that <span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">p\/q<\/span> was written in irreducible form (now it turns out that <span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">(p\/q)^2<\/span> can be simplified and its result is 2). Since assuming that <span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">\\sqrt{2}<\/span> is rational produces a contradiction, then it cannot be a rational number and we say, consequently, that it is irrational.<\/p>\n<h3>The Expansion to Real Numbers<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PfK-pIlyCj4&amp;t=1514s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">These results highlight the fact that,<\/span> <\/strong><\/a>to correctly define the n-th root it is necessary to extend the rationals to a new set, this is the set of real numbers, which we denote by <span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">\\mathbb{R}<\/span> and that contains both rationals and irrationals<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; color: #000000;\"><span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">\\mathbb{R}= \\mathbb{Q}\\cup \\mathbb{Q}^*<\/span>\n<p><a name=\"6\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>The Complex: The Algebraic Closure of Real Numbers<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PfK-pIlyCj4&amp;t=1532s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">At this point, we should note two things:<\/span><\/strong><\/a> (1) when <span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">n<\/span> is even, the n-th root becomes multivalued and, (2) if we also try to calculate <span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">\\sqrt[n]{q}<\/span> with <span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">q\\lt 0,<\/span> we will see that such a number cannot be a real number.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; color: #000000;\">The first is resolved by defining the <strong>principal root<\/strong> by applying a slight change to point (17) that talks about the definition of the root, staying as follows:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"text-align: justify; color: #000000;\">\n<td>17*.<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">q\\gt 0 \\rightarrow \\left[ 0\\lt p=\\sqrt[n]{q} \\leftrightarrow p^n=q \\right]<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; color: #000000;\">The second is achieved by extending the set of real numbers to the set of complex numbers <span class=\"katex-eq\" data-katex-display=\"false\">\\mathbb{C},<\/span> but this construction will be discussed later on.<\/p>\n<p><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A First Approach to Numerical Sets &#8211; ToposUranos.com A First Approach to Numerical Sets: From Naturals to Complex Summary:In this class, we will explore how natural numbers can be used as the basis for constructing other numerical sets to overcome certain operational limitations. 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