[FRIAM] The Strange Numbers That Birthed Modern Algebra

[Tom Johnson]

The 19th-century discovery of numbers called “quaternions” gave
mathematicians a way to describe rotations in space, forever changing
physics and math.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-strange-numbers-that-birthed-modern-algebra-20180906/?fbclid=IwAR32bY8dnkg_hCYImiFlJgJL3g_r1CR9Eos4V_YEPcb7bvYJWlTe-8-83fY


TJ

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