New views of crystal symmetry guided by profound admiration of the extraordinary works of Grassmann and Clifford

DOI10.1007/978-3-0346-0405-5_36MaRDI QIDQ2995140zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Eckhard Hitzer

Publication date 20 April 2011

Published in From Past to Future: Graßmann's Work in Context (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1306.2124

zbMATH Keywords

visualizationClifford algebrascrystallographycrystal symmetries

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of group theory (20-03) Other geometric groups, including crystallographic groups (20H15) Reflection groups, reflection geometries (51F15) Clifford algebras, spinors (15A66)

Abstract: This paper shows how beginning with Justus Grassmann's work, Hermann Grassmann was influenced in his mathematical thinking by crystallography. H. Grassmann's Ausdehnungslehre in turn had a decisive influence on W.K. Clifford in the genesis of geometric algebras. Geometric algebras have been expanded to conformal geometric algebras, which provide an ideal framework for modern computer graphics. Within this framework a new visualization of three-dimensional crystallographic space groups has been created. The complex beauty of this new visualization is shown by a range of images of a diamond cell. Mathematical details are given in an appendix.

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