Quaternions and Vector Analysis
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In this paper, the authors give to such faults an importance which they would not otherwise possess, and make some reply from me necessary, if I would not discredit the cause of non-quaternionic vector analysis.Abstract:
IN a paper by Prof. C. G. Knott on “Recent Innovations in Vector Theory,” of which an abstract has been given in NATURE (vol. xlvii. pp. 590–593; see also a minor abstract on p. 287), the doctrine that the quaternion affords the only sufficient and proper basis for vector analysis is maintained by arguments based so largely on the faults and deficiencies which the author has found in my pamphlet, “Elements of Vector Analysis,” as to give to such faults an importance which they would not otherwise possess, and to make some reply from me necessary, if I would not discredit the cause of non-quaternionic vector analysis. Especially is this true in view of the warm commendation and endorsement of the paper, by Prof. Tait, which appeared in NATURE somewhat earlier (p. 225).read more
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