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Rotations, Quaternions, and Double Groups
This text presents a consistent description of the geometric and quaternionic treatment of rotation operators. Covers the fundamentals of symmetries, matrices, and groups and presents a primer on rotations and rotation matrices. Also explores rotations and angular momentum, tensor bases, the bilinear transformation, projective representations, more. Includes problems with solutions.
- GenresMathematics
352 pages, Paperback
First published October 30, 1986
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July 28, 2011
This a a great book describing concepts of orientations in multidimensional configuration space that requires visual / spatial ability. He introduces "The Rodrigues program" which is a very good angular approach to quaternions
that actually predates Hamilton's quaternions but has been overlooked.
that actually predates Hamilton's quaternions but has been overlooked.
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