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JUST as “one shove of the bayonet” was truly said to be more effective than any number of learned discussions on the art of war:— this really practical work, giving genuine quaternion solutions of new ...

In May 1954, Cornelius Lanczos took up a position as senior professor in the School of Theoretical Physics at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (Dias). The institute had been established in ...

HAVING a vivid recollection of the pleasure I derived born Prof. Gibbs's attacks upon the quaternionic system in the rather one-sided discussion that took place about two years ago in this journal, I ...