Clifford Algebra for Physics Beginners

Of all the items in this list, this is the only one for which a project with interim results is not yet in place. As a potential area of deep simplification whose promise I can only imagine, however, it continually reminds me what some of our stuff might look like to new readers who are wondering why they should wade in...

Postscript: Since this page was put together on 8 May 1999, David has been awarded the American Association of Physics Teacher's Oersted Award, and published some lovely notes on this subject in the American Journal of Physics. These in turn did inspire a few Mathematica notes on the subject. These struggle in part with questions about multi-vector units, and dual spaces, that may be important for marrying this language up with real world applications.


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