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Definition of Quaternions
1. quaternion [n] - See also: quaternion
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quaternions
Literary usage of Quaternions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue of Scientific Papers, 1800-1900: Subject Indexby Royal Society (Great Britain), Herbert McLeod by Royal Society (Great Britain), Herbert McLeod (1908)
"Laplace's equation, application of quaternions quaternion. ... equation of
quaternions, Hamilton's and the author's methods of solution. ..."
2. Catalogue of Scientific Papers, 1800-1900: Subject Indexby Royal Society (Great Britain), Herbert McLeod by Royal Society (Great Britain), Herbert McLeod (1908)
"Laplace's equation, application of quaternions quaternion. ... equation of
quaternions, Hamilton's and the author's methods of solution. ..."
3. Projective Geometry by Oswald Veblen, John Wesley Young (1918)
"I. This number system is, in fact, the Hamiltonian system of quaternions. ...
EXERCISE A system of quaternions may be defined as a set of objects [9] such ..."
4. A Treatise on the Analytic Geometry of Three Dimensions by George Salmon (1862)
"APPENDIX I. ON THE CALCULUS OF quaternions. 1. THE Calculus of quaternions having
been successfully employed by its inventor Sir WR Hamilton in the ..."
5. Report of the Annual Meeting (1883)
"Sc. The writer is of opinion, that for the purpose of initiating the student into
tha knowledge of the principles of quaternions, it would be more ..."
6. Spinors, Clifford, and Cayley Algebras by Robert Hermann (1974)
"Perhaps the most famous example of a system of field equations which may be
elegantly described in terms of quaternions is the Maxwell electromagnetic ..."
7. Life of Sir William Rowan Hamilton: Knt., LL. D., D. C. L., M. R. I. A by Robert Perceval Graves (1889)
"They may, however, be so commutative- as factors, namely, when they are parallel
to one common line ; and thus the Calculus of quaternions includes all ..."
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