A Toy Model For Q8
Wednesday, March 21, 2012 - 09:50
in Mathematics & Economics
The idea for this blog was dead simple. In my second blog at Science 2.0, "Quaternions for a Third Grader", I showed of my clay and pipe cleaner model of quaternion multiplication. A few months ago, David Halliday and I started talking about the finite group Q8, which over the real numbers becomes the quaternions. David pointed out my tetrahedron was half the cube it needed to be to represent Q8. That was the idea for the blog: make a cube to represent that finite group. read more