Thread: What is meant by Im(w_1/w_2)?

In my elliptic functions course, the lecturer uses the term where . I can not find out what this means anywhere, is it referring to the imaginary part of or is it something to do with the image spanned by them? If it is the image then what would the plane be in terms of and ?

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Originally Posted by stuckonmaths

In my elliptic functions course, the lecturer uses the term where . I can not find out what this means anywhere, is it referring to the imaginary part of or is it something to do with the image spanned by them? If it is the image then what would the plane be in terms of and ?

I can't be 100% sure without seeing the context, but in the context of complex numbers almost always denotes the imaginary part of z.