On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 6:06 PM, glen e. p. ropella < [email protected]> 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/ > > 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 think I remember reading somewhere > that they were considered a geometric algebra... perhaps in Hestenes > book or in Penrose's Road to Reality. > I've don't recall ever seeing the octonions turn up in Hestenes, and looking at their multiplication table makes my head hurt. -- rec --
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