Re: naive question from a non-mathematician

On Sun, 28 May 2006 15:17:21 GMT, Stephen Montgomery-Smith
<stephen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Gene Ward Smith wrote:
Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
[...]
Incidently, the problem with your way of defining the complex numbers is
that it is by no means a priori obvious that this defines the complex
numbers uniquely (up to isomorphism). I am going to take your word for
it that it does.

I don't recall him saying explicitly that it does. I doubted
that it did; Denis says it doesn't.

But I would contend that this is not a natural way to
define the complex numbers.

Stephen


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David C. Ullrich
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