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On this day in 1843, the great Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton discovered a new kind of numbers called quaternions. Each quaternion has four parts, like the co-ordinates of a point in ...

Eight dimensions is a rarefied space that is home to the octonions – “the crazy old uncle nobody lets out of the attic”, as mathematician John Baez of the University of California, Riverside, puts it.

Marika Taylor currently receives funding from EPSRC, STFC, UK government deparments and the European Horizon programme. In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the ...