1) Quantum mechanic
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Spinors are mathematical objects in geometry and physics that, like vectors, and more generally tensors, transform in a certain way when the system containing them is subjected to a continuous rotation of its frame of reference. Here a `continuous rotation` refers to a rotation that depends continuously on a single parameter. All objects in the .....
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(from the article `Cartan, Élie-Joseph`) ...of Benjamin Peirce of Harvard and exhibiting a subalgebra of the German mathematician Ferdinand Georg Frobenius. In 1912 Cartan became a professor ...
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A mathematical object similar to a vector but which changes sign when rotated through 360°. Spinors were invented by Wolfgang Pauli and Paul Dirac (they were named by Paul Ehrenfest) to represent the spin of a subatomic particle. In the early 1930s, Dirac, Piet Hein and others at the Niels Bohr ...
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