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Did anyone else think this was going to be about algebraic roots? The complex numbers are famously the algebraic closure of the reals, but I find myself wonder
by jqgatsby 5y ago
Did anyone else think this was going to be about algebraic roots?
The complex numbers are famously the algebraic closure of the reals, but I find myself wondering lately if there is a related thought which doesn’t privilege them over the hyperbolic numbers or the dual numbers.
- bjeds 5y agoYou are being downvoted, but this is not as off-topic as it may seem. Simone Weil had a brother, André Weil. You may not know his name on the top of your head, but I guarantee you that you've heard of the pseuodonym he created together with some other mathematicians: Nicolas Bourbaki. I'm sure Weil and/or Bourbaki has lots to say about these topics.