Cayley-Dickson construction

English

Etymology

Named after Arthur Cayley and Leonard Eugene Dickson.

Proper noun

Cayley-Dickson construction

  1. (mathematics) 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.
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