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3 unusual facts about hypercomplex number


Hypercomplex number

Karen Parshall (1985) "Wedderburn and the Structure of Algebras" Archive for History of Exact Sciences 32:223–349.

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See Karen Parshall (1985) for a detailed exposition of the heyday of hypercomplex numbers, including the role of such luminaries as Theodor Molien and Eduard Study.

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In 1995 Ian R. Porteous wrote on "The recognition of subalgebras" in his book on Clifford algebras.


Charles Musès

Muses also envisioned a mathematical number concept, Musean hypernumbers, that includes hypercomplex number algebras such as complex numbers and split-complex numbers as primitive types.


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