Quaternion

In mathematics, the quaternion number system (represented using the symbol $\mathbb {H}$ ) extends the complex numbers into four dimensions. They were first described by Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton in 1843.^[1]^[2] They are often used in computer graphics to compute 3-dimensional rotations.

The eight-dimensional octonions come after the quaternions.

References

↑ "On Quaternions; or on a new System of Imaginaries in Algebra". Letter to John T. Graves. 17 October 1843.
↑ Rozenfelʹd, Boris Abramovich (1988). The history of non-euclidean geometry: Evolution of the concept of a geometric space. Springer. p. 385. ISBN 9780387964584.

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