Bonjour/bonsoir à toutes et à tous. This may really be a very basic question, but... Let $\mathbf{X} \equiv (X, \|\cdot\|_X)$ and $\mathbf{Y} \equiv (Y, \|\cdot\|_Y)$ be surjectively isometric Banach spaces (over the real or the complex field). > **Question 1.** Do $\mathbf{X}$ and $\mathbf{Y}$ need to share the same Hamel > dimension? The answer is clearly yes if the scalar field is the real numbers, since then any surjective isometry $\mathbf{X} \to \mathbf{Y}$ is, a fortiori, an affine transformation $X \to Y$ (via the Mazur-Ulam theorem). But what about the complex case? > **Question 2.** Do $\mathbf{X}$ and $\mathbf{Y}$ need to share the same (extended) Schauder > dimension as defined in J. W. Evans > and R. A. Tapia, *Hamel Versus Schauder > Dimension*, The American Mathematical > Monthly, Vol. 77, No. 4 (Apr., 1970), > pp. 385-388 ([click][1])? **Notes.** 1) I'm using the term *isometry* to refer, herein, to both linear and non-linear isometries. [1]: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2316148