If Hamilton had prevailed: Quaternions in physics (Q1903415)
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If Hamilton had prevailed: Quaternions in physics (English)
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22 April 1996
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``This is a nostalgic account of how certain key results in modern theoretical physics (prior to World War II) can be expressed concisely in the language of quaternions, thus suggesting how they might have been discovered if Hamilton's views had prevailed.'' The word ``nostalgic'' seems appropriate although results concern Maxwell's equations, special relativity, and quantum mechanics.
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Maxwell's equations
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special relativity
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quantum mechanics
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