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had discovered quaternions. Hamilton coined both vector and bivector, the latter in his Lectures on Quaternions (1853) as he introduced biquaternions, which have bivectors for their vector parts. It was not until English mathematician William Kingdon Clifford in 1888 added the geometric product to Grassmann's algebra, incorporating the ideas of both Hamilton and Grassmann,

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