Jonathan Hackett, Louis H. Kauffman
Published 2010-10-14, updated 2010-10-15Version 2
In this paper we review the topological model for the quaternions based upon the Dirac string trick. We then extend this model, to create a model for the octonions - the non-associative generalization of the quaternions.
Comments: 11 pages, 11 figures
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