A unified mathematical language for physics and engineering in the 21st century

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 358, Issue 1765, 2000, Pages 21-39

  Lasenby, Joan ^a   Lasenby, Anthony N ^b   Doran, Chris J L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Buckling; Computer vision; Geometric Clifford algebra; Geometry; Gravity; Quantum mechanics; Relativity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346111909     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2000.0517     Document Type: Article

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