1845 - 1879
William Kingdon Clifford British Scientist
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| First Name |
William
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| Middle Name |
Kingdon
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| Last Name |
Clifford
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| Birthday |
4th May, 1845
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| Birthplace |
Exeter, Devon, England
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| Died |
3rd March, 1879
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| Place of Death |
Madeira, Portugal
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| Buried |
Highgate Cemetery (East), Highgate, London Borough of Camden, Greater London, England
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| Zodiac Sign |
Taurus
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| Nationality |
British
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| Occupation |
Scientist
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William Kingdon Clifford FRS (4 May 1845 – 3 March 1879) was an English mathematician and philosopher. Building on the work of Hermann Grassmann, he introduced what is now termed geometric algebra, a special case of the Clifford algebra named in his honour. The operations of geometric algebra have the effect of mirroring, rotating, translating, and mapping the geometric objects that are being modelled to new positions. Clifford algebras in general and geometric algebra in particular have been of ever increasing importance to mathematical physics, geometry, and computing. Clifford was the first to suggest that gravitation might be a manifestation of an underlying geometry. In his philosophical writings he coined the expression mind-stuff.
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