Publication

2006-01-31 - Morgan Kaufmann

Language

English

Word Count

150,000 words, Guess

Page Count

600 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

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Description

"Andrew Hanson's new book is a fresh perspective on quaternions. Features include: illustrated introduction for the developer, scientist, engineer, or student in computer graphics, visualization, or entertainment computing; covers both non-mathematical and mathematical approaches to quaternions; and a companion website with an assortment of quaternion utilities and sample code, data sets for the book's illustrations, and Mathematica notebooks with essential algebraic utilities."--Jacket.

First Sentence

Quaternions arose historically from Sir William Rowan Hamilton's attempts in the midnineteenth century to generalize complex numbers in some way that would be applicable to three-dimensional (3D) space.

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