octonions – Uncommon Descent

Cosmology Intelligent Design Mathematics

Do strange numbers explain reality?

Some think that the properties of our universe are based on strange numbers which have eight dimensions, called octonions.

Cosmology Intelligent Design Mathematics Physics

Octonions: Do eight-dimensional numbers underlie the universe?

From Natalie Wolchover at Quanta: Complex numbers, suitably paired, form 4-D “quaternions,” discovered in 1843 by the Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton, who on the spot ecstatically chiseled the formula into Dublin’s Broome Bridge. John Graves, a lawyer friend of Hamilton’s, subsequently showed that pairs of quaternions make octonions: numbers that define coordinates in an Read More…

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