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Re:Understanding Quaternions by Entalpi on Sunday October 21, 2018 @05:54AM (#18267352)
People should read up on Galois theory and the story behind it. It involves a french youth, the french revolution, groundbreaking maths, and tangentially Poisson, Fourier and Cauchy, Gauss, Jacobi.

His life should be a movie. :-)

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Re:Understanding Quaternions by twtw on Sunday October 21, 2018 @11:10AM (#18268368)
It's always been interesting to me that both Galois and Abel accomplished so much despite dying so young.

Most introductions to Galois theory that I've read have mentioned his duel.

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Re:Understanding Quaternions by rzzzt on Sunday October 21, 2018 @06:13AM (#18267385)
The Determinants of a Matrix
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