Quaternions

[L E Bryan]

I suppose anyone interested would delve into the wikipedia entry on quaternions. If after reading to the bottom of that entry one is still interested in pursuing them relative to AtD…

It is so easy to give the appearance of bountiful knowledge of any esoteric subject by dropping a word here and there. I doubt P has more than a superficial knowledge of quaternions. It does have a nice ring to it. Quaternion. It rolls off the tongue with such esoteric significance.

However if the P-list wants to learn about them, I’d be willing to help with what I recall from 50 years ago.

Lawrence

On Aug 15, 2017, at 3:41 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Here's a thread worth talking about, maybe? Imaginary numbers in AtD are bad shit---in TRP's vision. ....
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> On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 6:17 AM, Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com <mailto: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.
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> 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.
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> On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 9:40 PM, L E Bryan <lebryan at sonic.net <mailto:lebryan at sonic.net>> wrote:
> An interesting pursuit. Was it just through P that you started learning about them?
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> > On Aug 14, 2017, at 5:34 PM, Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com <mailto:fuller.artful at gmail.com>> wrote:
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> > 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.
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> > Whether this is going to make me understand P. more deeply remains to be seen, but I do find the whole subject interesting.
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