Re:What are the complex numbers, really?
by zardo on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @02:20PM
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>TL;DR: complex numbers are the unique algebraic extension to the real numbers
The simplest, (or maybe most compact) extension.
You can also achieve closure by going from R to R^2 and adding the Geometric Product. This is also closed, but it includes vectors in R^2 as well as the complex numbers.
The simplest, (or maybe most compact) extension.
You can also achieve closure by going from R to R^2 and adding the Geometric Product. This is also closed, but it includes vectors in R^2 as well as the complex numbers.