Derek Smith
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Derek Smith
On Quaternions and Octonions
This book investigates the geometry of quaternion and octonion algebras. Following a comprehensive historical introduction, the book illuminates the special properties of 3- and 4-dimensional Euclidean spaces using quaternions, leading to enumerations of the corresponding finite groups of symmetries.
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John Meier
John (Lafayette College, Pennsylvania) Meier
Derek Smith
Derek (Lafayette College, Pennsylvania) Smith
Exploring Mathematics
Exploring Mathematics gives students experience with doing mathematics - interrogating mathematical claims, exploring definitions, forming conjectures, attempting proofs, and presenting results - and engages them with examples, exercises, and projects that pique their interest.
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Derek Smith
Bloody Savannah
Savannah is one of America’s most beautiful and historic cities. Yet underneath the mint juleps, oaks bearded with Spanish moss and the splendor of colonial architecture, there lurks a deadly undercurrent.
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Derek Smith
South Carolinians in the Battle of Gettysburg
From generals to privates, Palmetto State soldiers were hurled into the Civil War's most famous battle - hundreds were killed, wounded or later suffered as prisoners of war.
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