William Kingdon Clifford FRS (4 May 1845 – 3 March 1879) was a British mathematician and philosopher. Building on the work of Hermann Grassmann, he introduced...
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Gottesman and is named after the mathematician William Kingdon Clifford. Quantum circuits that consist of only Clifford gates can be efficiently simulated with...
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constant from point to point. The concept was first studied by William Kingdon Clifford in elliptic space and appears only in spaces of at least three...
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the English mathematician William Kingdon Clifford (1845–1879). The most familiar Clifford algebras, the orthogonal Clifford algebras, are also referred...
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sense that the surface of a cylinder is "flat"). It is named after William Kingdon Clifford. It resides in R4, as opposed to in R3. To see why R4 is necessary...
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In mathematical analysis, the Bessel–Clifford function, named after Friedrich Bessel and William Kingdon Clifford, is an entire function of two complex...
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bookseller William Kingdon Clifford (with his wife Lucy), mathematician and philosopher Lucy Lane Clifford, novelist and journalist, wife of William Kingdon Clifford...
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Clifford may refer to: Clifford (name), an English given name and surname, includes a list of people with that name William Kingdon Clifford Baron Clifford...
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bishop William Kingdon Clifford FRS (1845–1879), English mathematician and philosopher Edith Kingdon (1864–1921), American actress Frank Kingdon-Ward (1885–1958)...
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Dirichlet integrals, known as the Lobachevsky integral formula. William Kingdon Clifford called Lobachevsky the "Copernicus of Geometry" due to the revolutionary...
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} The following applications of shear mapping were noted by William Kingdon Clifford: "A succession of shears will enable us to reduce any figure bounded...
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Elements of Dynamic is a book published by William Kingdon Clifford in 1878. In 1887 it was supplemented by a fourth part and an appendix. The subtitle...
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actor of the silent era William Clifford (bishop) (1823–1893), English prelate of the Roman Catholic Church William Kingdon Clifford (1845–1879), mathematician...
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product is a scalar while the result of a cross product is a vector, William Kingdon Clifford coined the alternative names scalar product and vector product...
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Rooney William Kingdon Clifford, Department of Design and Innovation, the Open University, London. Joe Rooney (2007) "William Kingdon Clifford", in Marco...
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(also called Clifford algebra) of a vector space that represents a rotation about the origin. The term originated with William Kingdon Clifford, in showing...
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Cockle revealed his tessarines. William Kingdon Clifford used split-complex numbers to represent sums of spins. Clifford introduced the use of split-complex...
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Euler's formula parametrizing the unit circle in the complex plane. William Kingdon Clifford initiated the use of dual quaternions for kinematics, followed...
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William Kingdon Clifford greatly expanded on Grassmann's work to form what are now usually called Clifford algebras in his honor (although Clifford himself...
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biographer of Sir Francis Galton. He edited and completed both William Kingdon Clifford's Common Sense of the Exact Sciences (1885) and Isaac Todhunter's...
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Clifford analysis, using Clifford algebras named after William Kingdon Clifford, is the study of Dirac operators, and Dirac type operators in analysis...
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France (r. 1774–1792). In the 19th century, the mathematician William Kingdon Clifford, who was an early proponent of Darwinism, worked to eliminate obscurantism...
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Philip Goff René Descartes Thomas Metzinger Thomas Nagel William Kingdon Clifford William Lycan William Seager Psychology Carl Gustav Jung Donald D. Hoffman...
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In geometry, Clifford's theorems, named after the English geometer William Kingdon Clifford, are a sequence of theorems relating to intersections of circles...
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Lane of Barbados. She married the mathematician and philosopher William Kingdon Clifford in 1875. After his death in 1879, she earned a prominent place...
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"Quaternions et espace elliptique" which clarified an obscure space. William Kingdon Clifford had cryptically described elliptic space in 1873 at a time when...
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William Rowan Hamilton put forth the quaternions and biquaternions; James Cockle presented tessarines and coquaternions; and William Kingdon Clifford...
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origin of this idea can be found in an English mathematician William Kingdon Clifford's works. This theory was enthusiastically promoted by John Wheeler...
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Split-biquaternion (redirect from Clifford biquaternions)
split-complex numbers form the ring. This algebra was introduced by William Kingdon Clifford in an 1873 article for the London Mathematical Society. It has...
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lie at the Bases of Geometry. Bernhard Riemann. Translated by William Kingdon Clifford [Nature, Vol. VIII. Nos. 183, 184, pp. 14–17, 36, 37.] Riemann...
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