Re: Question: SPACE of super-complex numbers
From: Brian Smith (brianscsmith_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 08/21/04
- Next message: G.L.Narasimham: "Re: Joining two striagt lines with a smooth curve"
- Previous message: Peter Webb: "Re: Random Number generation using Usenet"
- In reply to: David Bandel: "Question: SPACE of super-complex numbers"
- Next in thread: Robert J. Kolker: "Re: Question: SPACE of super-complex numbers"
- Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ]
Date: 21 Aug 2004 05:29:38 -0700
dwb1729@yahoo.com (David Bandel) wrote in message news:<a88af92f.0408202116.697befd7@posting.google.com>...
> hi.
>
> complex numbers are elegant. the complex plane is simple to grasp. I
> am wondering if there is some extension that would go to the 3rd
> dimension. what kind of hyper-imaginary axis.. and what the unit of
> it would be and represent. (as the unit of the imaginaries represents
> the square root of -1) what would the unit of this 3rd axis' numbers
> be? is there such a thing?
I don't know of any 'three-dimensional numbers', but there are
established 'four-dimensional numbers' called Quaternions. Here's a
link:
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Quaternion.html
- Next message: G.L.Narasimham: "Re: Joining two striagt lines with a smooth curve"
- Previous message: Peter Webb: "Re: Random Number generation using Usenet"
- In reply to: David Bandel: "Question: SPACE of super-complex numbers"
- Next in thread: Robert J. Kolker: "Re: Question: SPACE of super-complex numbers"
- Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ]
Relevant Pages
|
