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Icosian calculus : ウィキペディア英語版
Icosian calculus

The icosian calculus is a non-commutative algebraic structure discovered by the Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton in 1856.
In modern terms, he gave a group presentation of the icosahedral rotation group by generators and relations.
Hamilton’s discovery derived from his attempts to find an algebra of "triplets" or 3-tuples that he believed would reflect the three Cartesian axes. The symbols of the icosian calculus can be equated to moves between vertices on a dodecahedron. Hamilton’s work in this area resulted indirectly in the terms Hamiltonian circuit and Hamiltonian path in graph theory. He also invented the icosian game as a means of illustrating and popularising his discovery.
== Informal definition ==

The algebra is based on three symbols that are each roots of unity, in that repeated application of any of them yields the value 1 after a particular number of steps. They are:
:
\begin
\iota^2 & = 1, \\
\kappa^3 & = 1, \\
\lambda^5 & = 1.
\end

Hamilton also gives one other relation between the symbols:
:\lambda = \iota\kappa.\,\!
(In modern terms this is the (2,3,5) triangle group.)
The operation is associative but not commutative. They generate a group of order 60, isomorphic to the group of rotations of a regular icosahedron or dodecahedron, and therefore to the alternating group of degree five.
Although the algebra exists as a purely abstract construction, it can be most easily visualised in terms of operations on the edges and vertices of a dodecahedron. Hamilton himself used a flattened dodecahedron as the basis for his instructional game.
Imagine an insect crawling along a particular edge of Hamilton's labelled dodecahedron in a certain direction, say from B to C. We can represent this directed edge by BC.
*The icosian symbol \iota equates to changing direction on any edge, so the insect crawls from C to B (following the directed edge CB).
*The icosian symbol \kappa equates to rotating the insect's current travel anti-clockwise around the end point. In our example this would mean changing the initial direction BC to become DC.
*The icosian symbol \lambda equates to making a right-turn at the end point, moving from BC to CD.

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