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The history of some subjects often makes exciting reading, especially when there is a dispute over dates or prior art. Clarifying who did something before someone else is the work of historians, who can help unravel who should be blamed for an event, and who should take the credit. Untangling events from journals, books and private letters, and placing them in an unbiased, temporal sequence requires subject knowledge, tenacity and objective analysis.
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Vince, J. (2021). The Complex Plane. In: Quaternions for Computer Graphics. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-7509-4_4
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