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5 unusual facts about James Cockle


Bicomplex number

James Cockle introduced the tessarines in 1848 in a series of articles in Philosophical Magazine.

Bring radical

This is essentially the same result as that obtained by the method of differential resolvents developed by James Cockle and Robert Harley in 1860.

Great Oakley, Essex

James Cockle, a surgeon and father of mathematician and first Chief Justice of Queensland Sir James Cockle.

James Cockle

Sir James Cockle FRS FRAS FCPS FMS (14 January 1819 – 27 January 1895) was an English lawyer and

One-parameter group

Mathematical physicists James Cockle, William Kingdon Clifford, and Alexander Macfarlane had all employed in their writings an equivalent mapping of the Cartesian plane by operator (cosh a + r sinh a), where a is the hyperbolic angle and r 2 = +1.



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