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A Brief History of Quaternions and of the Theory of Holomorphic Functions of Quaternionic Variables

Amy Buchmann

In this paper I will give a brief history of the discovery (Hamilton, 1843) of quaternions. I will address the issue of why a theory of triplets (the original goal of Hamilton) cou…