Hamilton, Rodrigues, Gauss, quaternions, and rotations: a historical reassessment

zbMath1268.01010MaRDI QIDQ1943532

Yanyan Li

Publication date: 20 March 2013

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.cma/1349803591

zbMATH Keywords

rotationsquaternionsLeonhard EulerArthur CayleyCarl Friedrich GaußOlinde RodriguesWilliam Rowan Hamilton

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55)

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Cites Work

• Olinde Rodrigues' paper of 1840 on transformation groups
• Hamilton, Rodrigues, and the Quaternion Scandal
• Quaternions and Reflections
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