Functions in Two-Dimensional Vector Space or Complex Plane

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This Demonstration illustrates that functions in a real two-dimensional vector space are equivalent to functions in the field of complex numbers. Specifically, we consider a class of functions of the form , where and are different integers. The black arrow traces out the function , shown as a black curve, while the two component vectors are represented by red and blue arrows, tracing out red and blue circles.

Contributed by: Izidor Hafner (February 2016)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA


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The idea for this Demonstration comes from [1, p. 17].

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[1] F. A. Farris, Creating Symmetry: The Artful Mathematics of Wallpaper Patterns, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015.



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