Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Reviews
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part I The Rationals
- Part II The Natural Numbers
- Part III The Real Numbers (and the Complex Numbers)
- Appendices
- Appendix A Products of Many Elements
- Appendix B nth Complex Roots
- Appendix C How Do Quaternions Represent Rotations?
- Appendix D Why Are the Quaternions So Special?
- References
- Index
Appendix D - Why Are the Quaternions So Special?
from Appendices
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 October 2019
- Frontmatter
- Reviews
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part I The Rationals
- Part II The Natural Numbers
- Part III The Real Numbers (and the Complex Numbers)
- Appendices
- Appendix A Products of Many Elements
- Appendix B nth Complex Roots
- Appendix C How Do Quaternions Represent Rotations?
- Appendix D Why Are the Quaternions So Special?
- References
- Index
Summary
- Type
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- Where Do Numbers Come From? , pp. 247 - 254Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019