CLIFFORD, W.K. - N-DIMENSIONAL SPACES.

On the Classification of Loci. Received April 8, - Read May 1878.

(London, Harrison and Sons, 1880). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1878 - Vol. 169 - Part II. Pp. 663-681.

First printing of this paper on "Clifford-Spaces" is considered a classich in mathematics, - being a general study of curves it is an introduction to the study of n-dimensional space.

Clifford, along with Hermann Grassmann, invented what is now termed geometric algebra, a special case being the Clifford
algebras named in his honor, which are used in contemporary mathematical physics. He was the first to suggest that gravitation might be a manifestation of an underlying geometrical structure of the universe, and contributed the advancement of non-Euclidean geometry developed by Bernhard Riemann and Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky. In his philosophical writings he coined the expression "mind-stuff". Clifford argued that energy and matter are simply different types of curvature of space. These ideas later played a fundamental role in Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity.

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