vector analysis in a sentence
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- Joseph George Coffin of MIT and Clark University published his " Vector Analysis " in 1909; it too leaned heavily into applications.
- Just as vector analysis has dot products and cross products, so affinor analysis has different kinds of products for tensors of various levels.
- Vector analysis was motivated by James Clerk Maxwell's studies of electromagnetism, and specifically the need to express and manipulate conveniently certain differential equations.
- A few years later there was a debate between Heaviside and Peter Guthrie Tait about the relative merits of vector analysis and quaternions.
- Taylor taught continued to teach classes in advanced analytic geometry and vector analysis, in addition to integral equations, differential geometry, and tensor analysis.
- The first half of Gibbs's " Elements of Vector Analysis ", published in 1881, presents what is essentially the modern system of vector analysis.
- Since the commutator ij & minus; ji = 2k, the Lie bracket in this algebra is twice the cross product of ordinary vector analysis.
- The first half of Gibbs's " Elements of Vector Analysis ", published in 1881, presents what is essentially the modern system of vector analysis.
- From the mid-1880s, quaternions began to be displaced by vector analysis, which had been developed by Josiah Willard Gibbs, Oliver Heaviside, and Hermann von Helmholtz.
- This associative algebra was the source of the science of vector analysis in three dimensions as recounted in " A History of Vector Analysis ".