by Kathy Joseph I just finished a video on a history of the quaternions and a biography of their inventor, William Rowan Hamilton. In it, I stated, I hope pretty convincingly, that the basic features of vector algebra ALL came from Hamilton: the scalar, the vector, the dot product (or, at least the negative of …
A Biography and Description of Couplets, Quaternions and the life of Hamilton Before I get into quaternions and William Rowan Hamilton and why I think both are amazing, I would like to take a couple of minutes to go over why I ended up making this video. This video started because I was working on …
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