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May 04, 1845 Exeter, England, United Kingdom Died on 03 Mar 1879 (aged 33)
English mathematician and philosopher
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About William Kingdon Clifford
- William Kingdon Clifford (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".
