Timeline for Examples where adding complexity made a problem simpler
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| Nov 25, 2012 at 10:55 | comment | added | Goldstern | @Pietro Majer: Very true. But I think that "the complex object $\mathbb C$" sounds better than "the complex object $\mathbb R$"... | |
| Nov 25, 2012 at 1:12 | comment | added | Noam D. Elkies | Not to mention $({\mathbb O}, {\mathbb H})$ ! | |
| Nov 25, 2012 at 0:32 | comment | added | Suvrit | @Pietro: but then the buck stops there ;-) ($\mathbb{H}, \mathbb{C}$ ) protests! | |
| Nov 24, 2012 at 23:56 | comment | added | Pietro Majer | Actually the same sentence holds with $(\mathbb{R}, \mathbb{Q})$ in palce of the pair $(\mathbb{C }, \mathbb{R })$, and maybe even with $(\mathbb{Q}, \mathbb{Z})$ or with $(\mathbb{Z}, \mathbb{N})$... | |
| Nov 24, 2012 at 23:20 | history | answered | Goldstern | CC BY-SA 3.0 |