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Vector : a surprising story of space, time, and mathematical transformation
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Vector : a surprising story of space, time, and mathematical transformation / Robyn Arianrhod.
ISBN
9780226821115
0226821110
9780226821108
0226821102
Publication
Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2024.
Physical Description
1 online resource
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Electronic reproduction. Berlin Available via World Wide Web.
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Variant and related titles
De Gruyter University Press eBook 2024.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 19, 2024
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Prologue
The liberation of algebra
The arrival of calculus
Ideas for vectors
Understanding space (and storage)
A surprising new player and a very slow reception
Tait and Maxwell : hatching the electromagnetic vector field
The slow journey from quaternions to vectors
Vector analysis at last
and a "war" over quaternions
From space to space-time : a new twist for vectors
Curving spaces and invariant distances : on the way to tensors
Inventing tensors
and why they matter
Everything comes together : tensors and the general theory of relativity
What happened next
Epilogue.
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