 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1902 - 632 pàgines
...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 quaternionic usage by maintaining that whereas... | |
 | Peter Guthrie Tait - 1890 - 460 pàgines
...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. Apropos of Grassmann, I may advert for a moment to some comparatively recent German statements... | |
 | Edinburgh Mathematical Society - 1893 - 352 pàgines
...take exception to some of Hamilton's most fundamental principles, and make corrections as they deem them, which logically revolutionise the whole basis...vectors, and, second, to Hamilton's notation. His objection to Hamilton's selective system of notation is based upon the dogma that the quaternion product... | |
 | Gustaf Hjalmar Eneström - 1903 - 666 pàgines
...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.... | |
 | Joseph Guiot, J. Guiot - 1912 - 146 pàgines
...ranked as one of the retarders of quaternions progress, in virtue of his pamphlet on Vector Analysis, a sort of hermaphrodite 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... | |
 | Charles Ernest Weatherburn - 1921 - 218 pàgines
...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 was well able to look after himself, and in his reply f had a long way the... | |
 | 1909 - 664 pàgines
...Tait,154 who looked upon Gibbs as " one of the retarders of quaternionic progress," defining his system as " a sort of hermaphrodite monster compounded of the notations of Hamilton and Grassmann." But Gibbs did not regard his method as strictly original ; he was only concerned with its application... | |
 | Oliver Heaviside - 2003 - 692 pàgines
...Heaviside's vector algebra, but pure mathematicians were not enthusiastic. Prof. PG Tait described it as 'a sort of hermaphrodite monster, compounded of the notations of Hamilton and Grassman'. Heaviside, however, was not interested in problems of abnormal physiology, for he was busy... | |
 | Feza G rsey, Chia-Hsiung Tze - 1996 - 492 pàgines
...as "... one of the retarders of quaternion progress, by virtue of his pamphlet on Vector Analysis, a sort of hermaphrodite monster, compounded of the notations of Hamilton and of Grassmann." His protagonist Heaviside pronounced that quaternions are " a positive evil of no inconsiderable... | |
 | Karen Hunger Parshall, David E. Rowe - 1994 - 532 pàgines
...James Clerk Maxwell, Gibbs developed a system of vector analysis prior to 1 880 which Tait described as "a sort of hermaphrodite monster, compounded of the notations of Hamilton and Grassmann."82 Gibbs had read Maxwell's Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism sometime after its publication... | |
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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 Grassmann. 
