Re: [FRIAM] The Strange Numbers That Birthed Modern Algebra

This is not particularly surprising. The two were friends in Washington during World War II, both as British agents. See https://www.amazon.com/Irregulars-Roald-British-Wartime-Washington/dp/0743294580. It is a pretty good book as I recall. —Barry On 7 Sep 2020, at 17:48, Steve Smith wrote:

Re: [FRIAM] The Strange Numbers That Birthed Modern Algebra

Such a wonderful and uniquely Reuben thing to do. I loved to see his delight in humanity and mathematics. -- Sent from: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ - . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/vir

Re: [FRIAM] The Strange Numbers That Birthed Modern Algebra

This book has been in my wishlist for-fscking-ever (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tmesis#English - thanks Dave!): New Foundations for Classical Mechanics https://bookshop.org/books/new-foundations-for-classical-mechanics-9789027725264/9789027725264 On 9/7/20 2:48 PM, Steve Smith wrote: > Tom

Re: [FRIAM] The Strange Numbers That Birthed Modern Algebra

Tom - Great find!   I'd never seen the "belt trick" animated like this... SimTable's progress finally has demanded widespread adoption of quaternions for the "traditional" reason of gimbal lock but with other side-benefits here and there.    This has lead to a strong spate of most of the team try

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Lovely. TJ Tom Johnson - t...@jtjohnson.com Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA 505.577.6482(c)505.473.9646(h) *NM Foundation for Open Government* *Check out It's The People'

Re: [FRIAM] The Strange Numbers That Birthed Modern Algebra

I wrote the following for Reuben Hersh’s memorial. The story is from when Reuben, Vera and I were in the same carpool to UNM. During one of our commutes, Reuben and I were sharing the back seat and Reuben brought up the subject of quaternions. For the mathematician quaternions, which are the ex

[FRIAM] The Strange Numbers That Birthed Modern Algebra

The 19th-century discovery of numbers called “quaternions” gave mathematicians a way to describe rotations in space, forever changing physics and math. https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-strange-numbers-that-birthed-modern-algebra-20180906/?fbclid=IwAR32bY8dnkg_hCYImiFlJgJL3g_r1CR9Eos4V_YEPcb7bvYJ