Quaternions

[Mark Kohut]

Here's a thread worth talking about, maybe? Imaginary numbers in AtD are
bad shit---in TRP's vision. ....

On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 6:17 AM, Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Yes. I was aware of imaginary numbers and the whole notion of a plane of
> numbers (i.e. numbers expressed in 2 dimensions, rather than the 1
> dimension we're used to), but had never encountered the word Quaternion
> until reading Against the Day.
>
> Not that I'm equipped to give the lecture, but it's interesting to note
> that once you grant the notion of a 2D range of numbers, there's no reason
> to stop at 2. It's easy to imagine 3D numbers; after that it's a bit of a
> stretch, at least for this old mind.
>
> Arthur
>
> On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 9:40 PM, L E Bryan <lebryan at sonic.net> wrote:
>
>> An interesting pursuit. Was it just through P that you started learning
>> about them?
>>
>> > On Aug 14, 2017, at 5:34 PM, Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Pursuant to Against the Day, I've been learning about Quaternions. I
>> know a thing or two about complex numbers, certainly not a lot; but I'm
>> learning about both the theory and various applications such as
>> electromagnetism.
>> >
>> > Whether this is going to make me understand P. more deeply remains to
>> be seen, but I do find the whole subject interesting.
>> >
>> > Arthur
>> >
>> > --
>> > Arthur
>> >
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> Arthur
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