Hacker News with Generative AI: Algebra

Abel Prize Awarded to Japanese Mathematician Who Abstracted Abstractions (nytimes.com)
Masaki Kashiwara, a Japanese mathematician, received this year’s Abel Prize, which aspires to be the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in math. Dr. Kashiwara’s highly abstract work combined algebra, geometry and differential equations in surprising ways.
The exceptional Jordan algebra (2020) (hatsya.com)
In the early 1930s, Pascual Jordan attempted to formalise the algebraic properties of Hermitian matrices.
Quaternions and spherical trigonometry (wordpress.com)
Hamilton’s quaternion number system is a non-commutative extension of the complex numbers, consisting of numbers of the form where are real numbers, and are anti-commuting square roots of with , , . While they are non-commutative, they do keep many other properties of the complex numbers:
Galois Theory (ph.utexas.edu)
The algebra and calculus of algebraic data types (2015) (recurse.com)
Grothendieck’s use of equality (arxiv.org)