Bivector
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title:
Bivector
text:
In mathematics, a bivector or 2-vector is a quantity in exterior algebra or geometric algebra that extends the idea of scalars and vectors. Considering a scalar as a degree-zero quantity and a vector as a degree-one quantity, a bivector is of degree two. Bivectors have applications in many areas of mathematics and physics. They are related to complex numbers in two dimensions and to both pseudovectors and vector quaternions in three dimensions. They can be used to generate rotations in a space o
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Sum of directed areas in exterior algebra
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bivector
date created:
2004-08-07T18:17:29Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T21:21:31Z
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