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Quaternions and matrices of quaternions. (English) Zbl 0873.15008
The author gives a useful survey on quaternions and matrices of quaternions. He recalls standard facts going back to Rowan Hamilton as well as new results motivated by applications in physical theories. The main research problem presented in the paper is to extend the classical matrix theory from complex to the quaternion matrices.

##### MSC:
 15B33 Matrices over special rings (quaternions, finite fields, etc.)
##### Keywords:
matrices of quaternions; quaternion matrices
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