alt Hacker NewsI'm presuming this is old news to you, but what helped me get comfortable with ℂ was learning that it's just the algebraic closure of ℝ.
I'm presuming this is old news to you, but what helped me get comfortable with ℂ was learning that it's just the algebraic closure of ℝ.
And why would R be "entitled" to an algebraic closure?
(I have a math degree, so I don't have any issues with C, but this is the kind of question that would have troubled me in high school.)