The complex conjugate of a complex number is its reflection on the real axis in the complex plane.
Let \(z=x + yi\in\mathbb C\) be a complex number. The complex conjugate of \(z\), denoted by \(z^* \), is the complex number with the same real part and the negative imaginary part, i.e.
\[z^* :=\Re(z) - \Im (z) i=x - y i.\]
In the complex plane, complex conjugates can be interpreted as the reflections of complex numbers across the real axis, as shown in the below figure
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Below, you can experiment with complex conjugation of a polygon in the complex plane. Just move around (e.g. using your mouse, mouse-pad or touchscreen) the points in the \(z\)-Plane and see the result in the \(w\)-Plane:
\(z\)-Plane:
\(w\)-Plane with \(w:= z^\ast \):
Corollaries: 1
Definitions: 2 3 4
Examples: 5
Proofs: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Propositions: 13 14 15 16
