Comment by gowld
9 days ago
It depends on what that "other way" is, and if it has a different structure, making it a different thing.
What's special about C is that it's almost a completely unified and uniform view of algebra of analysis, but not quite.
Exactly. So I feel like all the article really says is that "Complex numbers" doesn't necessarily tell you everything you need to know. It depends on what you're doing with them.