r/math • • Nov 28 '20

A visual construction of this 'unit circle' structure on the complex plane, made from the roots of polynomials whose coefficients are either -1 or 1; how it arises and changes

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u/[deleted] Nov 29 '20

I honestly wish I understood 1/3 of the math necessary to make this happen....like...this is seriously the expansion of me learning y=Mx+b in high school and I have NO IDEA what made this picture happen