From: kbriggs@pd.uwa.edu.au (Keith Briggs)
Newsgroups: sci.math.research
Subject: Re: quadratic equation in quaternions
Date: 8 Feb 1996 05:35:30 GMT

> Y. Kuo asked for solutions to the quaternion equation X^2+ iX + i + j = 0.

See
@article{niven41,
  author="Ivan Niven", title="Equations in Quaternions", 
  journal="Am. Math. Monthly", volume=48, pages="654--661", year=1941}

and http://www.pd.uwa.edu.au/Keith/quatern.bib for further references.
Keith

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