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Re: Eulerian angles

• To: mathgroup@smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg10306] Re: Eulerian angles
• From: Paul Abbott <paul@physics.uwa.edu.au>
• Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 03:47:24 -0500
• Organization: University of Western Australia
• References: <68n2tc$pns@smc.vnet.net>

Selwyn Hollis wrote:

> With all this ``controversy" about Eulerian angles, it sounds to me like
> someone ought to write a nice article about the subject, maybe for the
> Mathematica Journal. Hopefully it would be written so that even
> mathematicians could understand it... ;-)

But there _are_ nice books about the subject written by mathematicians
:-)  For example, as I recall, Vilenkin 1967 Special Functions and the
Theory of Group Representations (Providence: American Mathematical
Society) presents a readable account of the generalization of Eulerian
angles to n-dimensions.

Cheers,
	Paul 

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