How do I get ReIm [u+Iv] to return {u,v} rather than {Re[u+Iv],Im[u+Iv]}? i.e., how can one declare u real?
Thanks to both Daniel Lichtblau and Frank Kampas for advising that ReIm and ComplexExpand work together. Wonder if that should have been easier to search among all the great Mathematica documentation.
ReIm[u + I v] // ComplexExpand
Thanks.
Could use ReIm on numbers. For symbolic expressions there is ComplexExpand[{Re[expr],Im[expr]}].
ReIm
ComplexExpand[{Re[expr],Im[expr]}]
