Exercises in Quaternions

By William R. Hamilton

Hamilton published the commencement of a paper entitled

Exercises in Quaternions.
which appeared in the Cambridge and Dublin Mathematical Journal, volume 4 (1849), pp. 161-168.

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This short and elementary paper was intended to be the first installment of a longer expository paper, and covers only the basic properties of addition and subtraction of vectors, and multiplication of vectors by scalars, with their geometrical significations. No further installments were published.


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D.R. Wilkins
(dwilkins@maths.tcd.ie)
School of Mathematics
Trinity College, Dublin