Etymology

Cayley-Dickson construction

Today it means: 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. Full definition →

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Named after Arthur Cayley and Leonard Eugene Dickson.

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