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This article is an expanded version of my plenary lecture for the conference. It was the aim of the lecture to introduce the participants of the conference—their diverse realms of expertise ranged from theoretical physics, to computer science, to pure mathematics—to the algebraic matters of the title above. The basic texts listed in the references—note that this listing is by no means complete—serve as illustration of the rich and persistent interest in these topics and provide a reader with an opportunity to explore them in detail.
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Hahn, A.J. (2004). The Clifford Algebra in the Theory of Algebras, Quadratic Forms, and Classical Groups. In: Abłamowicz, R. (eds) Clifford Algebras. Progress in Mathematical Physics, vol 34. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2044-2_19
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