Quaternions Are Amazing and So Was William Rowan Hamilton (their creator)

A Biography and Description of Couplets, Quaternions and the life of Hamilton

Before I get into quaternions and William Rowan Hamilton and why I think both are amazing, I would like to take a couple of minutes to go over why I ended up making this video. This video started because I was working on a detailed history of Maxwell’s equations. That history is why I learned that Maxwell used quaternions in 1873 and then Heaviside and Gibbs (and others...