Equality of Complex Numbers

Theorem
Let $z_1 := a_1 + i b_1$ and $z_2 := a_2 + i b_2$ be complex numbers.

Then $z_1 = z_2$ $a_1 = a_2$ and $b_1 = b_2$.

Proof
By definition of a complex number, $z_1$ and $z_2$ can be expressed in the form:
 * $z_1 = \tuple {a_1, b_1}$
 * $z_1 = \tuple {a_2, b_2}$

where $\tuple {a, b}$ denotes an ordered pair.

The result follows from Equality of Ordered Pairs.