Category Archives: Quaternions

Complexification of a Real Krein Space. Part I

Introduction There is a rather unusual journal called the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics. It aims to provide an open forum for academic and informal discussions of the “human face of mathematics,” focusing on aesthetic, cultural, historical, literary, pedagogical, philosophical, psychological, … Continue reading

Posted in Functional analysis, Krein spaces, Linear Algebra, Lorentz transforations, Quaternions, Special relativity | Tagged , , , , | 7 Comments

Real magic – space-time in Lie algebra

We start with a partial recall of events as they transpired so far. A month ago we became hyperbolic. The post Getting hyperbolic started with this sentence: Without knowing it, during the last three posts (Our first field expedition, Our … Continue reading

Posted in Hyperbolic geometry, Quaternions, SU(1,1) | 1 Comment

Attitude matrix and quaternion path for m>1

I noticed that somehow I did not finish with the case So today, without further ado, I am posting the algorithm. We have the body with and we are considering the case with , where is, as always, the ratio … Continue reading

Posted in Attitude matrix, Elliptic functions, Moments of inertia, Quaternions, Stereographic projection | 20 Comments