Abstract
FROM a purely formal point of view, apart from any question of geometrical or physical application, the mathematical method known as quaternions may be described as a system of shorthand for dealing with the algebra of certain complex numbers.
Octonions; a Development of Clifford's Bi-quaternions.
By Alex. McAulay Pp. xiv + 253. (Cambridge: University Press, 1898.)
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BURNSIDE, W. Octonions; a Development of Clifford's Bi-quaternions. Nature 59, 411–412 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/059411a0
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