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album: Perdita
track 1: 2:03 When Darkness Long Has Veiled My Mind
track 2: 6:36 Y
track 3: 4:36 Unrecovered Memories
track 4: 3:01 Miracles
track 5: 2:16 Octonion
track 6: 6:39 Headlong Morosely
track 7: 2:37 Piano As Percussion
track 8: 7:20 Great Maker
track 9: 3:28 Braided Rose
track 10: 5:19 Bygones
track 11: 4:34 Unfettered
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Happy Octonion Day
8/8/8
In mathematics, the octonions are a nonassociative extension of the quaternions. Their 8-dimensional normed division algebra over the real numbers is the widest possible that can be obtained from the Cayley-Dickson construction. The octonion algebra is often denoted O.
Possibly because they don't offer an associative multiplication, the octonions receive at times less attention than the quaternions. Despite this lack of popularity, they are related to a number of exceptional structures in mathematics, among them the exceptional Lie groups. Additionally, octonions have applications in fields such as string theory, special relativity, and quantum logic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octonion
suggested reading:
Why Beauty Is Truth: A History of Symmetry by Ian Stewart
The Eight by Katherine Neville
"...the octonions are the crazy old uncle nobody lets out of the attic..." -- John Baez
track 1: 2:03 When Darkness Long Has Veiled My Mind
track 2: 6:36 Y
track 3: 4:36 Unrecovered Memories
track 4: 3:01 Miracles
track 5: 2:16 Octonion
track 6: 6:39 Headlong Morosely
track 7: 2:37 Piano As Percussion
track 8: 7:20 Great Maker
track 9: 3:28 Braided Rose
track 10: 5:19 Bygones
track 11: 4:34 Unfettered
...more albums...
Song Description
Happy Octonion Day
8/8/8
In mathematics, the octonions are a nonassociative extension of the quaternions. Their 8-dimensional normed division algebra over the real numbers is the widest possible that can be obtained from the Cayley-Dickson construction. The octonion algebra is often denoted O.
Possibly because they don't offer an associative multiplication, the octonions receive at times less attention than the quaternions. Despite this lack of popularity, they are related to a number of exceptional structures in mathematics, among them the exceptional Lie groups. Additionally, octonions have applications in fields such as string theory, special relativity, and quantum logic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octonion
suggested reading:
Why Beauty Is Truth: A History of Symmetry by Ian Stewart
The Eight by Katherine Neville
"...the octonions are the crazy old uncle nobody lets out of the attic..." -- John Baez
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magnatone
well smokey, I have NO idea what you said in that song description, but I know you're a total math head who's also an amazing music head. (And I know for SOME people, those go together - alas, not moi!) This is a VERY cool production. Love how the high piano tune comes in there and makes itself known. Your build is really elegant - you are just so talented - thanks!