William Kingdon Clifford

1845 - 1879

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William Clifford studied non-euclidean geometry arguing that energy and matter are simply different types of curvature of space. He introduced what is now called a Clifford algebra which generalises Grassmann's exterior algebra.
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  1. Obituary: The Times

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Fellow of the Royal Society1874

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