On Hamilton's Nearly-Forgotten Early Work on the Relation between Rotations and Quaternions and on the Composition of Rotations

DOI10.4169/AMER.MATH.MONTHLY.121.06.515zbMath1305.01031OpenAlexW2405051098WikidataQ58281327 ScholiaQ58281327MaRDI QIDQ2928651

Jose Pujol

Publication date: 10 November 2014

Published in: The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.4169/amer.math.monthly.121.06.515

zbMATH Keywords

rotationvectorquaternionArthur CayleyWilliam Rowan Hamilton

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of linear algebra (15-03)

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