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another way of corrupting the youth



As the saying goes, learning proceeds from the
known to the unknown.

So I wrote up a discussion of complex numbers in
one column, compared to Clifford Algebra in the
other column.

I'm imagining a sequence where people learn in
the following sequence:
-- plain old real numbers
-- vectors
-- complex numbers
-- Clifford Algebra.
or perhaps
-- plain old real numbers
-- complex numbers
-- vectors
-- Clifford Algebra.

The point being that most of the ideas in
Clifford Algebra can be seen as non-shocking
generalizations of ideas that are already
known from complex numbers, with a little
bit of vector technology thrown in.

http://www.monmouth.com/~jsd/physics/complex-clifford.htm