Octonion
The octonions are a non-associative extension of the quaternions. They were discovered by John T. Graves[?] in 1843, and independently by Arthur Cayley[?], who published the first paper on them in 1845. They are sometimes referred to as Cayley numbers or the Cayley algebra.The octonions form an 8-dimensional algebra over the real numbers, and can therefore be thought of as octets of real numbers. Every octonion is a real linear combination of the unit octonions 1, e1, e2, e3, e4, e5, e6 and e7, the multiplication table for which looks as follows.
| · | 1 | e1 | e2 | e3 | e4 | e5 | e6 | e7 |
| 1 | 1 | e1 | e2 | e3 | e4 | e5 | e6 | e7 |
| e1 | e1 | -1 | e4 | e7 | -e2 | e6 | -e5 | -e3 |
| e2 | e2 | -e4 | -1 | e5 | e1 | -e3 | e7 | -e6 |
| e3 | e3 | -e7 | -e5 | -1 | e6 | e2 | -e4 | e1 |
| e4 | e4 | e2 | -e1 | -e6 | -1 | e7 | e3 | -e5 |
| e5 | e5 | -e6 | e3 | -e2 | -e7 | -1 | e1 | e4 |
| e6 | e6 | e5 | -e7 | e4 | -e3 | -e1 | -1 | e2 |
| e7 | e7 | e3 | e6 | -e1 | e5 | -e4 | -e2 | -1 |
See also Hypercomplex numbers.
External links:
- The Octonions (http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/Octonions/octonions.html) - an article by John C. Baez
- Octonion Fractals (http://www.stud.ux.his.no/~onar/Octonion.html) - fractals generated using octonion mathematics
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