Re: [FRIAM] On Quaternions and Octonions, by John Conway and Derek Smith

2009-10-14 Thread glen e. p. ropella
Thus spake Owen Densmore circa 09-10-10 08:26 PM: Has anyone read this? http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/octonions/conway_smith/ I've not read enough Conway and I'm not sure where to start! So, is it fair to say that octonions are a geometric algebra, even though they aren't associative? I

Re: [FRIAM] On Quaternions and Octonions, by John Conway and Derek Smith

2009-10-14 Thread Carl Tollander
Look octonions (denizens of Octonia, which borders Philistia?) up in 'This Weeks Finds'John Baez wrote on 'em a bit awhile back... glen e. p. ropella wrote: Thus spake Owen Densmore circa 09-10-10 08:26 PM: Has anyone read this? http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/octonions/conway_smith/

Re: [FRIAM] On Quaternions and Octonions, by John Conway and Derek Smith

2009-10-14 Thread Carl Tollander
More specifically, http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/octonions/ Carl Tollander wrote: Look octonions (denizens of Octonia, which borders Philistia?) up in 'This Weeks Finds'John Baez wrote on 'em a bit awhile back... glen e. p. ropella wrote: Thus spake Owen Densmore circa 09-10-10 08:26

Re: [FRIAM] On Quaternions and Octonions, by John Conway and Derek Smith

2009-10-14 Thread Tom Carter
Glen - Ligature . . . ff is (sometimes) a single glyph . . . tom On Oct 14, 2009, at 5:06 PM, glen e. p. ropella wrote: And, more importantly, why do my searches for Clifford fail in Adobe Reader, but succeed in Evince, while reading the following file: