Quaternions and Cayley Numbers Algebra and Applications / by J.P. Ward.

In essence, this text is written as a challenge to others, to discover significant uses for Cayley number algebra in physics. I freely admit that though the reading of some sections would benefit from previous experience of certain topics in physics - particularly relativity and electromagnetism - g...

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Main Author: Ward, J.P (Author)
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Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1997.
Edition:1st ed. 1997.
Series:Mathematics and Its Applications ; 403
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505 0 |a 1 Fundamentals of Linear Algebra -- 1.1 Integers, Rationals and Real Numbers -- 1.2 Real Numbers and Displacements -- 1.3 Groups -- 1.4 Rings and Fields -- 1.5 Linear Spaces -- 1.6 Inner Product Spaces -- 1.7 Algebras -- 1.8 Complex Numbers -- 2 Quaternions -- 2.1 Inventing Quaternions -- 2.2 Quaternion Algebra -- 2.3 The Exponential Form and Root Extraction -- 2.4 Frobenius’ Theorem -- 2.5 Inner Product for Quaternions -- 2.6 Quaternions and Rotations in 3- and 4-Dimensions -- 2.7 Relation to the Rotation Matrix -- 2.8 Matrix Formulation of Quaternions -- 2.9 Applications to Spherical Trigonometry -- 2.10 Rotating Axes in Mechanics -- 3 Complexified Quaternions -- 3.1 Scalars, Pseudoscalars, Vectors and Pseudovectors -- 3.2 Complexified Quaternions: Euclidean Metric -- 3.3 Complexified Quaternions: Minkowski Metric -- 3.4 Application of Complexified Quaternions to Space-Time -- 3.5 Quaternions and Electromagnet ism -- 3.6 Quaternionic Representation of Bivectors -- 3.7 Null Tetrad for Space-time -- 3.8 Classification of Complex Bivectors and of the Weyl Tensor -- 4 Cayley Numbers -- 4.1 A Common Notation for Numbers -- 4.2 Cayley Numbers -- 4.3 Angles and Cayley Numbers -- 4.4 Cayley Number Identities -- 4.5 Normed Algebras and the Hurwitz Theorem -- 4.6 Rotations in 7-and 8-Dimensional Euclidean Space -- 4.7 Basis Elements for Cayley Numbers -- 4.8 Geometry of 8-Dimensional Rotations -- Appendix 1 Clifford Algebras -- Appendix 2 Computer Algebra and Cayley Numbers -- References. 
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