Representing octonions as matrices, sorta
The Endeavour 2025-05-26
Summary:
It’s possible to represent complex numbers as a pair of real numbers or 2 × 2 matrices with real entries. And it’s possible to represent quaternions as pairs of complex numbers or 2 × 2 matrices with complex entries were z* is the complex conjugate of z. And it’s also possible to represent octonions as pairs of […]
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