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by Upitor 1680 days ago
Isomorphic as vector spaces, meaning that their additive structure is the same. But the complex numbers are usually not used as a vector space, but rather as an algebraic field, i.e. considering both their additive and multiplicative structure.
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Thank you. But I am guessing I need to know a bit of abstract algebra to understand what you are saying which I don't have.