QUATÉRNIOS: GENERALIZAÇÃO DOS NÚMEROS COMPLEXOS NA PERSPECTIVA DO USO DO SOFTWARE EDUCATIVO GEOGEBRA E O SOFTWARE ON-LINE LIVRE QUATERNION

This article was carried out under the Tutorial Education Program (PET Mathematical Knowledge connections), of the Mathematics Degree Course at the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS) - Três Lagoas Campus (CPTL). Our objective was to present both the consolidation of Complex Numbers (1833) and the class of hyper-complex Quaternions (1843), both conceptualized by Sir William Rowan Hamilton, as well as using the Free Educational Software GeoGebra and the Free Online Software QUATERNION, as alternative pedagogical resources facilitating the development of the teaching and learning process of abstract mathematical content.