>>10691052I read that very recently, heres my advice: don't study quaternions, study History of maths and science in the 19th century. In particular
-Maxwell and electromagnetism
-optics
-railroads
-maths scene at Göttingen
The technical details of the mathematical objects arent important to the story. The mood about the progress of science in the turn of that century, however, is important. At that time, anything must have seemed possible, before Gödel shattered Hilbert's dream, before the World Wars
