All Done by Mirrors: Symmetries, Quaternions, Spinors, and Clifford Algebras

Simon Altmann ()
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Simon Altmann: Brasenose College

Chapter Chapter 5 in The Art of Science, 2014, pp 101-130 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Some form of applied aesthetics was already implicit in some of the oldest works done by humans, and mirror symmetry was its earliest manifestation.

Keywords: Polar Vector; Specular Reflection; Axial Vector; Mirror Plane; Imaginary Unit (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-02111-9_5

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