Thus spake Tom Carter circa 10/14/2009 11:30 PM:
> These days, most mathematicians are so comfortable with associativity
> that they'll go ahead and include that as part of "the definition" (of,
> e.g., a geometric algebra) . . . and then also they won't have a bunch
> of theorems that start out,
Thus spake Tom Carter circa 10/14/2009 10:49 PM:
> Ligature . . . ff is (sometimes) a "single glyph" . . .
Yeah, I figured it was something like that. "Clifford" appears in the
abstract; so I cut-n-pasted that into the Adobe Reader search box. It
showed one of those weird little ctrl-characte
Glen -
It's probably worth remembering that collections of spatio-
temporally located mathematicians will choose to use the "definitions"
that give them the amount of "traction" they want. They'll use
definitions that are sufficiently general as to cover the cases
they're most intereste
Glen -
Ligature . . . ff is (sometimes) a "single glyph" . . .
tom
On Oct 14, 2009, at 5:06 PM, glen e. p. ropella wrote:
And, more importantly, why do my searches for Clifford fail in Adobe
Reader, but succeed in Evince, while reading the following file:
http://www.ams.org/bull/2002-39-0
More specifically, http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/octonions/
Carl Tollander wrote:
Look octonions (denizens of Octonia, which borders Philistia?) up in
'This Weeks Finds'John Baez wrote on 'em a bit awhile back...
glen e. p. ropella wrote:
Thus spake Owen Densmore circa 09-10-10 08:26 PM:
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 6:06 PM, glen e. p. ropella <
g...@agent-based-modeling.com> wrote:
> Thus spake Owen Densmore circa 09-10-10 08:26 PM:
> > Has anyone read this?
> > http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/octonions/conway_smith/
> > I've not read enough Conway and I'm not sure where to start!
>
>
Look octonions (denizens of Octonia, which borders Philistia?) up in
'This Weeks Finds'John Baez wrote on 'em a bit awhile back...
glen e. p. ropella wrote:
Thus spake Owen Densmore circa 09-10-10 08:26 PM:
Has anyone read this?
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/octonions/conway_smith/
I'
Thus spake Owen Densmore circa 09-10-10 08:26 PM:
> Has anyone read this?
> http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/octonions/conway_smith/
> I've not read enough Conway and I'm not sure where to start!
So, is it fair to say that octonions are a geometric algebra, even
though they aren't associative? I t
No, and I cannot help you pick which Conway to read, either.
But, if you really want to know about Quaternions, there are several
digitized editions of Sir William Rowan Hamilton's Elements of Quaternions
available, both the original (1866) single volume prepared by his son and
the two volumes edit
Owen . . .
Hmmm . . . several potential issues here . . .
If your goal is to "get to know Conway" better, then you really
ought to start with ONAG (On Numbers and Games), which is a "classic"
of sorts -- a non-standard way of developing number systems (but, if
you are thinking about
Has anyone read this?
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/octonions/conway_smith/
I've not read enough Conway and I'm not sure where to start!
-- Owen
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