Vector : a surprising story of space, time, and mathematical transformation / Robyn Arianrhod.
"The stars of the latest book by award-winning science writer and mathematician Robyn Arianrhod are unlikely celebrities--vectors and tensors. If you took a high school physics course, the word "vector" might remind you of the mathematics needed to determine forces on an amusement par...
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The University of Chicago Press,
[2024]
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue
- 1. The liberation of algebra
- 2. The arrival of calculus
- 3. Ideas for vectors
- 4. Understanding space (and storage)
- 5. A surprising new player and a very slow reception
- T6. ait and Maxwell : hatching the electromagnetic vector field
- 7. The slow journey from quaternions to vectors
- 8. Vector analysis at last
- and a "war" over quaternions
- 9. From space to space-time : a new twist for vectors
- 10. Curving spaces and invariant distances : on the way to tensors
- 11. Inventing tensors, and why they matter
- 12. Everything comes together : tensors and the general theory of relativity
- 13. What happened next
- Epilogue
- Timeline
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index.