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A normed division algebra is a nonzero unital normed algebra in which every nonzero element has a two-sided multiplicative inverse. The complex Gelfand-Mazur theorem forces such an algebra to be $\mathbb{C}$, even when completeness is not initially assumed: embed it in its Banach algebra completion and use nonemptiness of the Banach-algebra spectrum.