Download or read book Quadratic Mappings and Clifford Algebras written by Jacques Helmstetter and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-05-24 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After general properties of quadratic mappings over rings, the authors more intensely study quadratic forms, and especially their Clifford algebras. To this purpose they review the required part of commutative algebra, and they present a significant part of the theory of graded Azumaya algebras. Interior multiplications and deformations of Clifford algebras are treated with the most efficient methods.