Comment by Pythagomizer

I like this approach. I especially agree with the comparison of complex numbers to negative numbers. Remember that historically, not every civilization even had a number for zero. Likewise, mathematicians struggled with a generalized solution to the Quadratic. The problem was that there were at least 6 possible equations to solve a quadratic without using negative numbers. Back then, its application was limited to area and negative numbers seemed irrelevant based on the absolute value nature of distance. It was only by abandoning our simplistic application rooted in reality that we could develop a single Quadratic Equation and with it open a new world of possibilities.