Olinde Rodrigues' paper of 1840 on transformation groups

DOI10.1007/BF00595376zbMath0443.01011OpenAlexW1977312700WikidataQ56446146 ScholiaQ56446146MaRDI QIDQ1144004

Jeremy J. Gray

Publication date: 1980

Published in: Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00595376

zbMATH Keywords

rotationsquaternionstranslationsrigid bodymotions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of mechanics of particles and systems (70-03)

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• Die Geschichte der Differentialgeometrie von Gauß\ bis Riemann (1828--1868)
• The calculus of operations and the rise of abstract algebra
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