Vector : a surprising story of space, time, and mathematical transformation /
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Chicago ; London :
The University of Chicago Press,
2024.
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Table of 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.