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When the plane is viewed as the plane ℂ of complex numbers, rotation about O through angle θ is the same as multiplication by the number
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Stillwell, J. (2008). Geometry of complex numbers and quaternions. In: Naive Lie Theory. Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-78214-0_1
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