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Cayley-Dickson construction

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A construction that produces a sequence of Cayley-Dickson algebras: algebras over the field of real numbers, each with twice the dimension of the previous one.

Word forms

Cayley-Dickson construction

Etymology

Named after Arthur Cayley and Leonard Eugene Dickson.

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