Quaternion engagements and terrains of knowledge (1858-1880) : a comparative social history of Peter Guthrie Tait and William Kingdon Clifford's uses of quaternions
Historical studies of quaternion mathematics have usually placed Sir William Rowan Hamilton's "discovery" of quaternions within the context of the history of modern vector analysis. Exemplary of this technique is the seminal study A History of Vector Analysis by Michael Crowe (1967),...
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University of Edinburgh
2009
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