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Re: Real and Imaginary Parts of complex functions

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• Subject: [mg129942] Re: Real and Imaginary Parts of complex functions
• From: Sseziwa Mukasa <mukasa at gmail.com>
• Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 03:07:18 -0500 (EST)
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On Feb 26, 2013, at 1:09 AM, Brentt <brenttnewman at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> Hello,
> 
> I was wondering why this works
> 
> IN[]:= Refine[Re[x + y I], Element[x , Reals] && Element[y , Reals]]
> 
> Out[]:= x
> 
> But this does not
> 
> In[]:= Refine[Re[1/(x + y I)], Element[x , Reals] && Element[y , Reals]]
> 
> Out[]:= Re[1/(x + y I)]
> 
> 
> 
> Is there a nice built in way to get the real and imaginary parts of a
> complex function?

(Debug) In[1]:= ComplexExpand[Re[1/(x+I y)]]
(Debug) Out[1]= x/(x^2+y^2)

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    • From: Brentt <brenttnewman@gmail.com>