Division Algebras:: Octonions Quaternions Complex Numbers and the Algebraic Design of Physics (Mathematics and Its Applications, 290) 1994th Edition by Geoffrey M. Dixon (PDF)

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I don’t know who Gigerenzer is, but he wrote something very clever that I saw quoted in a popular glossy magazine: “Evolution has tuned the way we think to frequencies of co-occurances, as with the hunter who remembers the area where he has had the most success killing game.” This sanguine thought explains my obsession with the division algebras. Every effort I have ever made to connect them to physics – to the design of reality – has succeeded, with my expectations often surpassed. Doubtless this strong statement is colored by a selective memory, but the kind of game I sought, and still seek, seems to frowst about this particular watering hole in droves. I settled down there some years ago and have never feIt like Ieaving. This book is about the beasts I selected for attention (if you will, to ren­ der this metaphor politically correct, let’s say I was a nature photographer), and the kind of tools I had to develop to get the kind of shots Iwanted (the tools that I found there were for my taste overly abstract and theoretical). Half of thisbook is about these tools, and some applications thereof that should demonstrate their power. The rest is devoted to a demonstration of the intimate connection between the mathematics of the division algebras and the Standard Model of quarks and leptons with U(l) x SU(2) x SU(3) gauge fields, and the connection of this model to lO-dimensional spacetime implied by the mathematics.

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⭐I only have a B.S. in math, but I have always wanted to find out more about Hamiltonians (quaternions), and then later octonions. I am a bit premature reviewing this book, since I have only started. Perhaps I will add some more to this review when I finish it. But, so far, this is an excellent book (mostly through Underpinnings). I am reading this in conjunction with “An Elementary Treatise on Quaterions”, which is supposed to be THE BOOK to read on the subject. If you have enough time, and the determination, you can read this book with just a good undergraduate course in abstract algebra, even if it has been decades since you were in school.

⭐I have not yet received my command. P. MERAT

⭐This eminently delightful and readable book presents the three division algebras: the complex numbers, the quaternions, and the octonions that seem to govern the electromagnetic force, the weak nuclear force, and the strong nuclear force, respectively. One might also add that gravity is so to speak governed by the real numbers. Of these four fundamental forces, only electromagnetism exists both in classical physics and in quantum physics, probably because its corresponding division algebra, the complex numbers, is commutative, as is the real numbers, and has a continuous unit sphere, unlike the real numbers.

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