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On This Day: The discovery of octonions by John T. Graves, who denoted them with a boldface... (1843)

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On December 26, 1843: The discovery of octonions by John T. Graves, who denoted them with a boldface O, was announced to his mathematician friend William Hamilton, discoverer of quaternions, in a lett...

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