Advances in Analysis and Geometry

Tao Qian

ISBN 10: 3764366613 / ISBN 13: 9783764366612

Published by Springer, Basel, Birkhäuser Basel, Birkhäuser Apr 2004, 2004

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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -On the 16th of October 1843, Sir William R. Hamilton made the discovery of the quaternion algebra H = qo + qli + q2j + q3k whereby the product is determined by the defining relations 2 2 1 Z =] = - , ij = -ji = k. In fact he was inspired by the beautiful geometric model of the complex numbers in which rotations are represented by simple multiplications z ----t az. His goal was to obtain an algebra structure for three dimensional visual space with in particular the possibility of representing all spatial rotations by algebra multiplications and since 1835 he started looking for generalized complex numbers (hypercomplex numbers) of the form a + bi + cj. It hence took him a long time to accept that a fourth dimension was necessary and that commutativity couldn't be kept and he wondered about a possible real life meaning of this fourth dimension which he identified with the scalar part qo as opposed to the vector part ql i + q2j + q3k which represents a point in space. 376 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Advances in Analysis and Geometry
• Publisher: Springer, Basel, Birkhäuser Basel, Birkhäuser Apr 2004
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3764366613
• ISBN 13: 9783764366612
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 235W x 188H x 35D millimeters 235 millimeters width by 188 millimeters height by 35 millimeters depth
• Weight: 838 grams

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On the 16th of October 1843, Sir William R. Hamilton made the discovery of the quaternion algebra H = qo + qli + q2j + q3k whereby the product is determined by the defining relations ·2 ·2 1 Z =] = - , ij = -ji = k. In fact he was inspired by the beautiful geometric model of the complex numbers in which rotations are represented by simple multiplications z ----t az. His goal was to obtain an algebra structure for three dimensional visual space with in particular the possibility of representing all spatial rotations by algebra multiplications and since 1835 he started looking for generalized complex numbers (hypercomplex numbers) of the form a + bi + cj. It hence took him a long time to accept that a fourth dimension was necessary and that commutativity couldn't be kept and he wondered about a possible real life meaning of this fourth dimension which he identified with the scalar part qo as opposed to the vector part ql i + q2j + q3k which represents a point in space.