# The Mystery of Spinors

- Institution: CERN
- Department: CERN Colloquium
- Taught by: Michael Francis Atiyah, Luís Alvarez-Gaumé
- Year: 2006
- Language: English
- Subjects: Mathematics, Physics
- Source: [CERN](https://videos.cern.ch/record/3015700)
- Licence: [CERN](http://copyright.web.cern.ch)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

One of the most fundamental and far-reaching advances in modern physics was the introduction of spinors by Dirac and their use in his famous equation. I will trace back the origins of this to William Rowan Hamilton's discovery of quaternions and follow up with a survey of the use of spinors in physics and mathematics. Despite their undoubted success the real meaning of spinors remains elusive..

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## Lectures

1. [The Mystery of Spinors](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/cern/3015700/25a29547c271), 57 min (CERN's player)