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    In group theory, the quaternion group Q8 (sometimes just denoted by Q) is a non-abelian group of order eight, isomorphic to the eight-element subset {...
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    In mathematics, the quaternion number system extends the complex numbers. Quaternions were first described by the Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton...
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  • In mathematics, a Hurwitz quaternion (or Hurwitz integer) is a quaternion whose components are either all integers or all half-integers (halves of odd...
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  • MR 1878556 "Galois group", Encyclopedia of Mathematics, EMS Press, 2001 [1994] Galois group and the Quaternion group "Galois Groups". MathPages.com. Comparing...
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  • used to represent rotation, unit quaternions are also called rotation quaternions as they represent the 3D rotation group. When used to represent an orientation...
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  • Versor (redirect from Unit quaternion)
    In mathematics, a versor is a quaternion of norm one (a unit quaternion). Each versor has the form q = exp ⁡ ( a r ) = cos ⁡ a + r sin ⁡ a , r 2 = − 1...
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    The Quaternion Eagle (German: Quaternionenadler; Italian: aquila quaternione), also known as the Imperial Quaternion Eagle (German: Quaternionen-Reichsadler)...
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    the four-group is the basic group of permutations in the twelve-tone technique. In that instance, the Cayley table is written Quaternion group List of...
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    2-group. However, every group of order p2 is abelian. The dihedral groups are both very similar to and very dissimilar from the quaternion groups and...
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    non-abelian groups of order 2n which have a cyclic subgroup of index 2. Two are well known, the generalized quaternion group and the dihedral group. One of...
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    finite p-groups are solvable, as all finite p-groups are nilpotent. In particular, the quaternion group is a solvable group given by the group extension...
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  • quaternion in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The quaternions form a number system that extends the complex numbers. Quaternion rotation Quaternion group...
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    quaternions with norm 1 (the versors), as a multiplicative group, act on R3: for any such quaternion z = cos α/2 + v sin α/2, the mapping f(x) = zxz* is a...
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  • In mathematics, a quaternion algebra over a field F is a central simple algebra A over F that has dimension 4 over F. Every quaternion algebra becomes a...
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    In mathematics, the dual quaternions are an 8-dimensional real algebra isomorphic to the tensor product of the quaternions and the dual numbers. Thus...
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    In mathematics, quaternions are a non-commutative number system that extends the complex numbers. Quaternions and their applications to rotations were...
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    The Poincaré group, named after Henri Poincaré (1906), was first defined by Hermann Minkowski (1908) as the isometry group of Minkowski spacetime. It...
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    of class 1). The 2-groups of maximal class are the generalised quaternion groups, the dihedral groups, and the semidihedral groups. Furthermore, every...
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  • variants thereof, and the elements of {1, i, j, k} multiply as in the quaternion group and commute with their coefficients. There are three types of biquaternions...
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  • non-abelian Dedekind group is called a Hamiltonian group. The most familiar (and smallest) example of a Hamiltonian group is the quaternion group of order 8, denoted...
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    A quotient group or factor group is a mathematical group obtained by aggregating similar elements of a larger group using an equivalence relation that...
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    mathematics, and specifically in group theory, a non-abelian group, sometimes called a non-commutative group, is a group (G, ∗) in which there exists at...
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    In abstract algebra, a cyclic group or monogenous group is a group, denoted Cn (also frequently Z {\displaystyle \mathbb {Z} } n or Zn, not to be confused...
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    S^{3}} ; as a group, it may be identified with the group of unit quaternions. The Heisenberg group is a connected nilpotent Lie group of dimension 3...
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    In abstract algebra, group theory studies the algebraic structures known as groups. The concept of a group is central to abstract algebra: other well-known...
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    group is isomorphic to the quaternion group Q. More generally, when n is a power of 2, the dicyclic group is isomorphic to the generalized quaternion...
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    Galois group Gell-Mann matrices Group object Hilbert space Integer Lie group Matrix Modular arithmetic Number Pauli matrices Real number Quaternion Quaternion...
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    In mathematics, a permutation group is a group G whose elements are permutations of a given set M and whose group operation is the composition of permutations...
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    In mathematics, given two groups, (G,∗) and (H, ·), a group homomorphism from (G,∗) to (H, ·) is a function h : G → H such that for all u and v in G it...
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    In the mathematical field of group theory, Lagrange's theorem is a theorem that states that for any finite group G, the order (number of elements) of...
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