...arose from the following remark made in the preface to the third edition of Tait's ElementaryJTreatise: "Even Prof. Willard Gibbs must be ranked as one of...compounded of the notations of Hamilton and of Grassmann." Prof. Gibbs justified his departure from quaternionic usage by maintaining that whereas the scalar...

...CJibbs must be ranked as one of the retarders of quaternionic progress, in virtue of his pamphlet ,0l, Vector Analysis, a sort of hermaphrodite monster, compounded of the notations of Hamilton and Grassmann." Grassmann, I may observe, established, inter alia, a calculus of vectors, but not of quaternions....

...Professor Willard Gibbs as one of the retarders of quaternion progress, and of his system of notation as " a sort of hermaphrodite monster compounded of the notations of Hamilton and Grassmann " Professor Gibbs, in a letter published in Nature, April 2, 1891, virtually admits both...

...arose from the following remark made in the preface to the third edition of Tait's Elementary Treatise: "Even Prof. Willard Gibbs must be ranked as one of...Vector Analysis; a sort of hermaphrodite monster, compounded^of the notations of Hamilton and of Grassmann." Prof. Gibbs justified his departure from...

...arose from the following remark made in the preface to the third edition of Tait's Elementary Treatise: "Even Prof. Willard Gibbs must be ranked as one of...Vector Analysis; a sort of hermaphrodite monster, compounded'of the notations of Hamilton and of Grassmann." Prof. Gibbs justified his departure from...

...expressed his view of GIBUS' Vector-analysis in the following manner: „Even Professor WILLAUD Gntiis 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."...

...ranked äs one of the retarders of quaternion progress. in virtne of his pamphlet on Vector-analysis; a sort of hermaphrodite monster, compounded of the notations of HAMILTON and of GRASSMANN." Prof. GIBBS replied in two letters to Nature, 43, 1891, p. 511 and 44, 1891, p. 79. He justified his...

...notice, in the preface to the third edition of Prof. Tait's Quaternions seems to call for some reply : " Even Prof. Willard Gibbs must be ranked as one of...progress, in virtue of his pamphlet on Vector Analysis, & sort of hermaphrodite monster, compounded of the notations of Hamilton and of Grassmann." The merits...

...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,...compounded of the notations of Hamilton and of Grassmann. » Gibbs crut devoir protester dans Nature (1891, XLIII, p. 5ii-5i3). Il justifie l'emploi des seuls...

...quaternionic usage in the treatment of vectors to be an enormity. " Even Prof. Gibbs," he wrote,* " must be ranked as one of the retarders of quaternion...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 best of the...