History of Conjugation

	Revision 6 . . December 18, 2001 11:05 pm by Karl Palmen [Generalise mathematical definition.]
	Revision 5 . . December 18, 2001 4:27 am by AxelBoldt [+mathematical meaning]
	Revision 4 . . December 1, 2001 1:47 am by Josh Grosse
	Revision 3 . . December 1, 2001 1:16 am by Magnus Manske [Split]
	Revision 2 . . December 1, 2001 12:15 am by The Anome [added biological meaning of conjugation]
	Revision 1 . . November 30, 2001 11:39 pm by Karl Palmen [start by copying part of Latin Conjugation]

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Conjugation, in mathematics, denotes a particular operation applied to complex numbers.

Conjugation, in mathematics, denotes a particular operation applied to complex numbers. More generally, it is a mapping of a field into itself that is invariant under both addition and multiplication.