Quaternion
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quaternion-162-4614200
title:
Quaternion
text:
In mathematics, the quaternion number system extends the complex numbers. Quaternions were first described by the Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton in 1843 and applied to mechanics in three-dimensional space. The algebra of quaternions is often denoted by H, or in blackboard bold by H. Quaternions are not a field, because multiplication of quaternions is not, in general, commutative. Quaternions provide a definition of the quotient of two vectors in a three-dimensional space. Quaternion
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Noncommutative extension of the complex numbers
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternion
date created:
2001-10-13T21:15:58Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T17:28:53Z
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