Mathematics
- Complex number, an extension of real numbers obtained by adjoining imaginary numbers
- Complex system, a system of interconnected simple parts that together exhibit a high degree of computational complexity from which emerges a higher order behavior
- Complex analysis, the study of functions of complex numbers
- An element of a complex algebra or field of sets
- Chain complex, a (possibly long) sequence of maps
- Simplicial complex, a kind of topological space that can be divided into fully adjacent triangles, or more generally, into simplices
- CW complex, or closure-finite weak complex, a kind of topological space, a generalization of the simplicial complex
- Line complex, a 3-dimensional family of lines in space
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