Quaternions

"Quaternions;" so now I got exactly what I wanted, and I am very busy for a few hours every morning; delighted to have an occupation so entirely to my mind.

Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville Mary Somerville 1826

For Tait's quaternion theory, see P.G. Tait, "An Elementary Treatise on Quaternions", Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1875, 1st edition.

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Hamilton spent the remaining 22 years of his life developing the algebra of Quaternions and its applications.

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In 1853, his "Lectures on Quaternions" - a most difficult and awkward book - appeared.

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His quaternion work was published posthumously in 1866 as "The Elements of Quaternions".

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Quaternions and Maxwell's quaternion theory, may eventually have returned to them to try to capture the elusive gravity, which - by the present authour's thesis - inadvertently he had discarded earlier when he struck down the scalar component of the quaternion and converted it to a vector.

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We do not fulminate against a treatise on Quaternions because it lacks humor.

The Dramatic Values in Plautus Wilton Wallace Blanck�� 1916

The studies to be selections from such subjects as Differential Equations, Higher Algebra, Modern Geometry, Quaternions, Analytic Mechanics, etc.

History of the University of North Carolina. Volume II: From 1868 to 1912 Kemp Plummer 1912

Quaternions and the quirks of [Proofers note: checkmark symbol] (-- i) in an alcove of his _Boodah_ suite hardly fourteen feet square, cosy, rosy, and homely: he sitting at a sofa-head, and, lying on the sofa,

The Lord of the Sea 1906

If he had only lived a generation later, how charming would have been the fytte or canto on Quaternions!

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889