Thus spake Tom Carter circa 10/14/2009 11:30 PM:
These days, most mathematicians are so comfortable with associativity
that they'll go ahead and include that as part of the definition (of,
e.g., a geometric algebra) . . . and then also they won't have a bunch
of theorems that start out, Let
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
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/
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
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:
Owen . . .
Hmmm . . . several potential issues here . . .
If your goal is to get to know Conway better, then you really
ought to start with ONAG (On Numbers and Games), which is a classic
of sorts -- a non-standard way of developing number systems (but, if
you are thinking about
No, and I cannot help you pick which Conway to read, either.
But, if you really want to know about Quaternions, there are several
digitized editions of Sir William Rowan Hamilton's Elements of Quaternions
available, both the original (1866) single volume prepared by his son and
the two volumes
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!
-- Owen
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