Even Prof. Willard Gibbs must be ranked as one of the retarders of quaternion progress, in virtue of his pamphlet on Vector Analysis; a sort of hermaphrodite monster, compounded of the notations of Hamilton and of Grassmann . ' Electromagnetic Theory - Page 135by Oliver Heaviside - 1893Full view - About this book
| American Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1902 - 632 pages
...ElementaryJTreatise: "Even Prof. Willard Gibbs must be ranked as one of the retarders of quaternion progress, in virtue of his pamphlet on Vector} Analysis;...monster, compounded of the notations of Hamilton and of Grassmann." Prof. Gibbs justified his departure from quaternionic usage by maintaining that whereas... | |
| Peter Guthrie Tait - History - 1890 - 460 pages
...ridiculous excess." Even Prof. Willard Gibbs must be ranked as one of the retarders <,f Quaternion progress, in virtue of his pamphlet on Vector Analysis...monster, compounded of the notations of Hamilton and of Grassmann. Apropos of Grassmann, I may advert for a moment to some comparatively recent German statements... | |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science - American periodicals - 1902 - 630 pages
...Elementary Treatise: "Even Prof. Willard Gibbs must be ranked as one of the retarders of quaternion progress, in virtue of his pamphlet on Vector Analysis;...monster, compounded of the notations of Hamilton and of Grassmann . ' ' Prof. Gibbs justified his departure from quaternionic usage by maintaining that... | |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science - American periodicals - 1902 - 628 pages
...Elementary Treatise: "Even Prof. Willard Gibbs must be ranked as one of the retarders of quaternion progress, in virtue of his pamphlet on Vector Analysis; a sort of hermaphrodite monster, compounded]of the notations of Hamilton and of Grassmann." Prof. Gibbs justified his departure from... | |
| Josiah Willard Gibbs - Dynamics - 1906 - 304 pages
...call for some reply : " Even Prof. Willard Gibbs must be ranked as one of the retarders of quaternion progress, in virtue of his pamphlet on Vector Analysis,...monster, compounded of the notations of Hamilton and of Grassmann." The merits or demerits of a pamphlet printed for private distribution a good many years... | |
| Joseph Guiot, J. Guiot - Vector analysis - 1912 - 146 pages
...en ces termes : « Even Prof. Williard Gibbs must be ranked as one of the retarders of quaternions progress, in virtue of his pamphlet on Vector Analysis,...monster, compounded of the notations of Hamilton and of Grassmann. » Gibbs crut devoir protester dans Nature (1891, XLIII, p. 5ii-5i3). Il justifie l'emploi... | |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1902 - 628 pages
...Willard Gibbs must be ranked as one of the retarders of quaternion progress, in virtue of his paniphlet on Vector Analysis; a sort of hermaphrodite monster, compounded of the notations of Hamilton and of Grassmann." Prof. Gibbs justified his departure from quaternionic usage by maintaining that whereas... | |
| Charles Ernest Weatherburn - Mathematics - 1921 - 218 pages
...an enormity. " Even Prof. Gibbs," he wrote,* " must be ranked as one of the retarders of quaternion progress, in virtue of his pamphlet on Vector Analysis,...monster compounded of the notations of Hamilton and of Grassmann." Prof. Gibbs was well able to look after himself, and in his reply f had a long way the... | |
| Josiah Willard Gibbs - Science - 1902 - 528 pages
...call for some reply : " Even Prof. Willard Gibbs must be ranked as one of the retarders of quaternion progress, in virtue of his pamphlet on Vector Analysis,...monster, compounded of the notations of Hamilton and of Grassmann." The merits or demerits of a pamphlet printed for private distribution a good many years... | |
| Vladimir Naumovich Zharkov - Earth - 1986 - 638 pages
...of the calculus... . Even Prof. Willard Gibbs must be ranked as one of the retarders of Quaternion progress, in virtue of his pamphlet on Vector Analysis;...monster, compounded of the notations of Hamilton and of Grassmann. Tait expressed other complaints in his Preface, such as what he felt to be the "failure... | |
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