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I don't know, but here are my ideas: - quaternions maybe have a more interesting backstory than other constructs. Not everything was carved into stone. - quat

by twtw 8y ago

I don't know, but here are my ideas: - quaternions maybe have a more interesting backstory than other constructs. Not everything was carved into stone. - quaternions never really became part of mainstream mathematical education. This makes them more niche and strange, and worth telling a story about. It's not as interesting to tell a story about something commonplace.

Entalpi 8y ago
People should read up on Galois theory and the story behind it. It involves a french youth, the french revolution, groundbreaking maths, and tangentially Poisson, Fourier and Cauchy, Gauss, Jacobi. His life should be a movie. :-)
- rzzzt 8y ago
  The Determinants of a Matrix
- twtw 8y ago
  It's always been interesting to me that both Galois and Abel accomplished so much despite dying so young. Most introductions to Galois theory that I've read have mentioned his duel.