nLab William Clifford

Discoverer of Clifford algebra, following Hermann Grassmann‘s Grassmann algebra.

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Selected writings

Early speculation on what much later came to be called geometrodynamics:

• William Clifford, On the Space-Theory of Matter, Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 2 (1864-1876 - Printed 1876) 157-158 reprinted in: The Concepts of Space and Time Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 22 Springer (1976) [doi:10.1007/978-94-010-1727-5_50]

English translation of Bernhard Riemann‘s, Über die Hypothesen, welche der Geometrie zu Grunde liegen, Göttingen (1845) [doi:10.1007/978-3-642-35121-1]:

• William Clifford: On the hypotheses which underlie geometry, Nature VIII (1873) 183-184 [doi:10.1007/978-3-319-26042-6]

Introducing the notion of Clifford algebra:

• William Clifford, Applications of Grassmann’s extensive algebra, American Journal of Mathematics 1 4 (1878) 350-358 [doi:10.2307/2369379, jstor:2369379]

  (referring to Hermann Grassmann‘s Ausdehnungslehre)

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• On the Space-Theory of Matter

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