When1: 1874
When2: 1877
Who: William Kingdon Clifford [Clifford, William Kingdon]
What: mathematician/philosopher
Where: England
works\ Body and Mind [1874]; Ethics of Belief [1877]; Applications of Grassmann's extensive algebra [1878]
Detail: He lived 1845 to 1879 and invented geometric product and Clifford algebras [1878]. He studied complex analysis. Addition does not necessarily combine two units of same kind but instead defines relations, as in complex numbers or hypernumbers. People have innate learning, which developed through evolution {evolutionary epistemology, Clifford}. Mind grows by evolution {creative evolution}.
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