Arithmetic with complex number

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The motivating factor for the use of complex numbers is that they form an algebraically closed field. In simpler language any algebraic operation that is proformed on a complex number gives a complex number. This is not true for real numbers, for example, Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle x^{2}+1=0} is an entirly real expression but Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle x} cannot be a real number. The solution is .

For this we will consider two complex numbers, and , where and .

Addition


Multiplication


Division


Here we see two important number. The complex conjugate, Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \bar{z}=\overline{x+iy}=x-iy} and the length of a complex number Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle {||z||}^{2}=z.\bar{z}=x^{2}+y^{2}.}