William Kingdon Clifford (1845 - 1879)

* 4 May 1845, † 3 March 1879

William Kingdon Clifford was born on 4 May 1845 in Exeter, Devon, England. William Clifford was an English mathematician who studied non-euclidean geometry arguing that energy and matter are simply different types of curvature of space. He introduced what is now called a Clifford algebra which generalises Grassmann’s exterior algebra. William Kingdon Clifford died on 3 March 1879 in Madeira Islands, Portugal.