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About Vectors

About Vectors

About Vectors
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About Vectors Paperback - 1975

by Hoffmann, Banesh

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Dover Publications, 1975. Paperback. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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  • Title About Vectors
  • Author Hoffmann, Banesh
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Us Edition
  • Condition Used - Acceptable
  • Pages 144
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Dover Publications, Mineola, New York, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1975
  • Features Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G0486604896I5N01
  • ISBN 9780486604893 / 0486604896
  • Weight 0.45 lbs (0.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.1 x 5.6 x 0.4 in (20.57 x 14.22 x 1.02 cm)
  • Category Mathematics
  • Library of Congress subjects Vector analysis
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 75011081
  • Dewey Decimal Code 515.63
  • Quantity available 1

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From the publisher

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.

About the author

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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