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Il apparut que, <b>entre deux v茅rit茅s du domaine r茅el, le chemin le plus facile et le plus court passe bien souvent par le domaine complexe.</b></i> <ul><li>The natural development of this work soon led the geometers in their studies to embrace imaginary as well as real values of the variable. The theory of Taylor series, that of elliptic functions, the vast field of Cauchy analysis, caused a burst of productivity derived from this generalization. It came to appear that, <b>between two truths of the real domain, the easiest and shortest path quite often passes through the complex domain.</b> <ul><li><cite style="font-style:normal" class="book" id="CITEREFPaul_Painlev茅1967">Paul Painlev茅 (1967) [1900]. <i>Analyse des travaux scientifiques</i>. Gauthier-Villars (reprinted by Librairie Scientifique et Technique, Albert Blanchard). <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/2853671313" title="Special:BookSources/2853671313">ISBN 2853671313</a>.</cite><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Analyse+des+travaux+scientifiques&rft.aulast=Paul+Painlev%C3%A9&rft.au=Paul+Painlev%C3%A9&rft.date=1967&rft.pub=Gauthier-Villars+%28reprinted+by+Librairie+Scientifique+et+Technique%2C+Albert+Blanchard%29&rft.isbn=2853671313&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Complex_analysis"><span style="display: none;"> </span></span></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>At the beginning of the new millennium the most famous unsolved problem in complex analysis, if not in all of mathematics, is to determine whether the <a href="/wiki/Riemann_hypothesis" title="Riemann hypothesis">Riemann hypothesis</a> holds. <ul><li><cite style="font-style:normal" class="book" id="CITEREFTheodore_Gamelin2003">Theodore Gamelin (17 July 2003). <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=61BO2UY9QN4C&pg=PA370">Complex Analysis</a></i>. 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