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Larry Biedenharn is, perhaps, best known for his penetrating insights into the relevance of abstract mathematics for the structure of physical theory and his ability to implement this mathematics in a style comprehensible to physicists. This is well-illustrated by his many recent contributions to q-algebras. He has also written numerous papers concerned with the pedagogy of physical theory — papers with the purpose of clarifying the content and meaning of a subject. It is in the spirit of these latter contributions that the present paper is presented. The subject is the quantum rotation group, SU(2), the group of 2 × 2 unitary unimodular matrices, and its fundamental role in physical theory.
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Louck, J.D. (1993). From the Rotation Group to the Poincaré Group. In: Gruber, B. (eds) Symmetries in Science VI. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1219-0_37
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