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<p><b>William Kingdon Clifford</b> (4 May 18453 March 1879) was a British <a href="page.php?w=mathematician">mathematician</a> and <a href="page.php?w=philosopher">philosopher</a>. Building on the work of <a href="page.php?w=Hermann_Grassmann">Hermann Grassmann</a>, he introduced what is now termed <a href="page.php?w=geometric_algebra">geometric algebra</a>. This is a special case of what later became known as the <a href="page.php?w=Clifford_algebra">Clifford algebra</a>, which was named in his honour. The operations of geometric algebra have</p><p>
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