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Professor Klein's View of Quaternions; a Criticism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 September 2014
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In the first part of Klein and Sommerfeld's treatise “Ueber die Theorie des Kreisels,” there is a section entitled, Excurs über die Quaterionentheorie. In the preceding paper, Professor Tait has discussed the main conclusion contained in this digression; and I here propose to sketch the line of argument by which Klein and Sommerfeld have arrived at their curious mis-interpretation of Hamilton's Quaternion.
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page 31 note * The introduction of this phrase might easily suggest to the reader that Hamilton had erred in not sufficiently explaining his meaning. On the contrary, Hamilton's explanations are always full—almost prolix at times.
page 32 note * In the absence of the tensor T the quaternion form is simpler than the Drehstreckung form.