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Buch 97 von 303: Dover Books on Mathematics

Hoffmann, Banesh

 
9780486604893: About Vectors (Dover Books on Mathematics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0486604896 ISBN 13: 9780486604893
Verlag: Dover Publications Inc., 1975

Inhaltsangabe

From his unusual beginning in "Defining a vector" to his final comments on "What then is a vector?" author Banesh Hoffmann has written a book that is provocative and unconventional. In his emphasis on the unresolved issue of defining a vector, Hoffmann mixes pure and applied mathematics without using calculus. The result is a treatment that can serve as a supplement and corrective to textbooks, as well as collateral reading in all courses that deal with vectors.
Major topics include vectors and the parallelogram law; algebraic notation and basic ideas; vector algebra; scalars and scalar products; vector products and quotients of vectors; and tensors. The author writes with a fresh, challenging style, making all complex concepts readily understandable. Nearly 400 exercises appear throughout the text.
Professor of Mathematics at Queens College at the City University of New York, Banesh Hoffmann is also the author of The Strange Story of the Quantum and other important books. This volume provides much that is new for both students and their instructors, and it will certainly generate debate and discussion in the classroom.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Banesh Hoffmann (1906-86) received his PhD from Princeton University. At Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, he collaborated with Albert Einstein and Leopold Infeld on the classic paper "Gravitational Equations and the Problem of Motion." Hoffmann taught at Queens College for more than 40 years.

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Verlag
Dover Publications Inc.
Erscheinungsdatum
1975
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0486604896
ISBN 13 
9780486604893
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Anzahl der Seiten
134
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