If you’ve ever dealt with orbital mechanics or sophisticated computer graphics, you’ve probably run across the math term quaternions. [Anyleaf] has a guide to the practical use of this math concept ...
The story of William Rowan Hamilton’s discovery of new four-dimensional numbers called quaternions is familiar. The solution of a problem that had bothered him for years occurred to him in a flash of ...
Imagine winding the hour hand of a clock back from 3 o’clock to noon. Mathematicians have long known how to describe this rotation as a simple multiplication: A number representing the initial ...
On this day in 1843, the great Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton discovered a new kind of numbers called quaternions. Each quaternion has four parts, like the co-ordinates of a point in ...
Les quaternions unitaires représentent l'espace mathématique des rotations en trois dimensions de façon relativement simple. On peut comprendre la correspondance entre les rotations et les quaternions ...
It’s 179 years since William Rowan Hamilton really put Ireland on the maths map by inventing quaternions. This is a four-dimensional number system with a highly usual property as the order in which ...
On October 16, 1843, Sir William Rowan Hamilton was crossing the Royal Canal, Dublin, with his wife, on his way to presiding over a meeting of the Royal Irish Academy. While crossing Brougham Bridge, ...
HAVING a vivid recollection of the pleasure I derived born Prof. Gibbs's attacks upon the quaternionic system in the rather one-sided discussion that took place about two years ago in this journal, I ...
En mathématiques les représentations du groupe des quaternions sont un exemple d'application de la théorie des représentations d'un groupe fini. Il illustre le théorème d'Artin-Wedderburn et met en ...