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A History of Vector Analysis: The Evolution of the Idea of a Vectorial System

A History of Vector Analysis: The Evolution of the Idea of a Vectorial System

Crowe, Michael J.

Paperback

Series: Dover Books on Mathematics

CalculusGeneral Mathematics

Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 0486679101
ISBN13: 9780486679105
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: Nov 2 2011
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.62 Width: 5.44 Depth: 8.44
Language: English

On October 16, 1843, Sir William Rowan Hamilton discovered quaternions and, on the very same day, presented his breakthrough to the Royal Irish Academy. Meanwhile, in a less dramatic style, a German high school teacher, Hermann Grassmann, was developing another vectorial system involving hypercomplex numbers comparable to quaternions. The creations of these two mathematicians led to other vectorial systems, most notably the system of vector analysis formulated by Josiah Willard Gibbs and Oliver Heaviside and now almost universally employed in mathematics, physics and engineering. Yet the Gibbs-Heaviside system won acceptance only after decades of debate and controversy in the latter half of the nineteenth century concerning which of the competing systems offered the greatest advantages for mathematical pedagogy and practice.

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