Quaternions and Rotation Sequences
Quaternions and Rotation Sequences Ever since the Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton introduced quaternions in the nineteenth century--a feat he celebrated by carving the founding equations…
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Quaternions and Rotation Sequences
Ever since the Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton introduced quaternions in the nineteenth century--a feat he celebrated by carving the founding equations into a stone bridge--mathematicians and engineers have been fascinated by these mathematical objects. In this book, J. B. Today, they are used in applications as various as describing the geometry of spacetime, guiding the Space Shuttle, and developing computer applications in virtual reality.
But Kuipers also presents the more conventional and familiar 3 x 3 (9-element) matrix rotation operator. Kuipers introduces quaternions for scientists and engineers who have not encountered them before and shows how they can be used in a variety of practical situations.The book is primarily an exposition of the quaternion, a 4-tuple, and its primary application in a rotation operator. These parallel presentations allow the