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" 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 135
by Oliver Heaviside - 1893
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Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of ..., Volume 51

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...
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An Elementary Treatise on Quaternions

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...
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Proceedings, Volume 51

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...
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Proceedings, Volume 51

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...
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Scientific Papers of J. Willard Gibbs ...: Dynamics. Vector analysis and ...

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...
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Le calcul vectoriel et ses applications à la géométrie réglée

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...
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Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

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...
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Elementary Vector Analysis: With Application to Geometry and Physics

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...
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pt. 1 Elementary principles in statistical mechanics. pt. 2. Dynamics ...

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...
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Interior Structure of the Earth and Planets

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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