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Geometric Product<br />
• William Kingdon Clifford (1845-79):<br />
• Combine inner and outer product to defined<br />
the geometric product AB (1878):<br />
AB := A B A B<br />
• Result is not a vector, but the sum of a<br />
scalar + bivector!<br />
• Operates on “multivectors”<br />
• Subset of the t<strong>en</strong>soralgebra<br />
• Geometric Product is invertible!<br />
Das Geometrische Produkt<br />
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