quaternion

Summary

quaternion ranks in the top 0.39% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,016 views/month, #304 of 77,819).^[1]

Key Facts

• quaternion is credited with the discovery of William Rowan Hamilton^[2].
• quaternion's follows is recorded as complex number^[3].
• quaternion's followed by is recorded as octonion^[4].
• quaternion's GND ID is recorded as 4176653-2^[5].
• quaternion's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85109754^[6].
• quaternion's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 11981947w^[7].
• quaternion's subclass of is recorded as hypercomplex number^[8].
• quaternion's subclass of is recorded as tetrad^[9].
• quaternion's subclass of is recorded as ordered pair^[10].
• quaternion's subclass of is recorded as octonion^[11].
• quaternion's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00570899^[12].
• quaternion's part of is recorded as algebra of real quaternions^[13].
• quaternion's Commons category is recorded as Quaternions^[14].
• quaternion's has part is recorded as real number^[15].
• +1843-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of quaternion^[16].
• quaternion's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1843-00-00T00:00:00Z^[17].
• quaternion's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0dkqr^[18].
• quaternion's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph844096^[19].
• quaternion's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Quaternions^[20].
• quaternion's National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID is recorded as XX4728834^[21].
• quaternion's described at URL is recorded as http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/quaternione_%28Dizionario-delle-Scienze-Fisiche%29/^[22].
• quaternion's described at URL is recorded as https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-strange-numbers-that-birthed-modern-algebra?utm_source=pocket-newtab-global-en-GB^[23].
• quaternion's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)^[24].
• quaternion's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition^[25].
• quaternion's described by source is recorded as Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary^[26].

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Works and Contributions

quaternion is credited with the discovery of William Rowan Hamilton^[2].

Why It Matters

quaternion ranks in the top 0.39% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,016 views/month, #304 of 77,819).^[1] quaternion has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[27] quaternion is known by 60 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[28]