2018-10-25#

quaternions [1]#

quaternions are a number system that extends the complex numbers. They were first described by Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton in 1843 and applied to mechanics in three-dimensional space. A feature of quaternions is that multiplication of two quaternions is noncommutative. Hamilton defined a quaternion as the quotient of two directed lines in a three-dimensional space or equivalently as the quotient of two vectors.

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• [#1] - What are quaternions, and how do you visualize them? A story of four dimensions. - based on information obtained 2018-10-25-
• [#2] - Intro to Rotors from Geometric Algebra - based on information obtained 2018-11-04-