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Maple and the Identification of Quaternions and Other Algebras

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The goal of this chapter is to identify some mathematical systems in CGA and to investigate what their geometric meaning is (Fig. 4.1).

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Hildenbrand, D. (2013). Maple and the Identification of Quaternions and Other Algebras. In: Foundations of Geometric Algebra Computing. Geometry and Computing, vol 8. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31794-1_4

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