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MHB Help with Periodic Table Question, don't know what I'm doing wrong.
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Obviously, there is something elementary I am missing here.
To form the transpose of a matrix, one exchanges rows and columns, so the transpose of a scalar, considered as (or isomorphic to) a one-entry matrix, should stay the same, including if the scalar is a complex number. On the other hand, in the isomorphism between the complex plane and the real plane, a complex number a+bi corresponds to a matrix
in the real plane; taking the transpose we get
which then corresponds to a-bi...