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Physics: Analysis: Vector: History: Who introduced the name 'vector'?

Jan 28th, 2006 18:23
Knud van Eeden,

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Physics: Analysis: Vector: History: Who introduced the name 'vector'?
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[book: Struik, Dirk - A conscise history of mathematics]
The name 'vector' comes from George Rowan Hamilton.
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Internet: see also:
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Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics
http://members.aol.com/jeff570/v.html
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