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In this chapter we review some basic ideas of number sets, and how they are manipulated arithmetically and algebraically. We look briefly at expressions and equations and the rules used for their construction and evaluation. These, in turn, reveal the need to extend every-day numbers with so called complex numbers. The second part of the chapter is used to define groups, rings and fields.
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Vince, J. (2021). Number Sets and Algebra. In: Quaternions for Computer Graphics. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-7509-4_2
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