GMac: The Next Generation (1 of 2)
In the summer of 2003, I was almost at the end of my M.Sc. thesis. One day I was surfing the web searching for some references to add to the thesis I’d been writing. I ran into Mikael Nilsson’s interesting M.Sc. thesis “Geometric Algebra with Conzilla: Building a Conceptual Web of Mathematics”. His work contains a nice introduction to Geometric Algebra, with accompanying UML-based conceptual models. It got me very curious about GA. I made some more searches finding a few papers, books, and tutorials. After reading some of them I was suddenly transferred into a new world of algebraic abstractions. For the first time in my life as a student, engineer, and software developer I could hope to express, explore, and manipulate geometric abstractions with such clarity. I then decided that my Ph.D. will be about exploring Geometric Algebra using the best way I know: developing software.