
Elements of Quaternions 2 Part Set
William Rowan Hamilton(Author)
William Edwin Hamilton(Editor)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 10. June 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
834 pages
978-1-108-00900-3 (ISBN)
Description
Sir William Rowan Hamilton (1805-65) was a distinguished Irish mathematician who worked in the fields of classical mechanics, optics and algebra, as well as in physics and astronomy. Hamilton was the discoverer of quaternions, which are defined as a non-commutative number system which extends the complex numbers. He first described them in 1843, and devoted much of his subsequent life to studying and lecturing on the concept. This book was published posthumously in 1866, with the final editing by his son. Until they were replaced, from the mid-1880s, by vector analysis, quaternions were taught as a major topic in advanced mathematics at most universities, and their utility in describing spatial relations has led to a revival of interest in them since the late twentieth century.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
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Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 252 mm
Width: 324 mm
Thickness: 67 mm
Weight
1350 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-108-00900-3 (9781108009003)
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Content
Preface; Part I. On Vectors: 1. Fundamental principles respecting vectors; 2. Applications to points and lines in a given plane; 3. Applications of vectors to space; Part II. On Quaternions: 1. Fundamental principles; 2. On complanar quaternions; 3. On biplanar quaternions; Part III. On Quaternions: 1. On the interpretation of a product of vectors; 2. On differentials and developments of functions of quaternions; 3. On some additional applications.