 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1902 - 632 pages
...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 - History - 1890 - 460 pages
...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... | |
 | Gustaf Hjalmar Eneström - Mathematics - 1903 - 666 pages
...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 - Vector analysis - 1912 - 146 pages
...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 - Mathematics - 1921 - 218 pages
...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... | |
 | Science - 1909 - 664 pages
...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 - Education - 2003 - 692 pages
...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 - Science - 1996 - 492 pages
...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 - Mathematics - 1994 - 532 pages
...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... | |
 | Volker Dietrich, Klaus Habetha, Gerhard Jank - Mathematics - 1998 - 484 pages
...us left aside a disputable practical sense- all subsequent development of Gibbs' "Vector Analysis, a sort of hermaphrodite monster, compounded of the notations of Hamilton and Grassmann" '(Tait) [7, p. 185], Pauli's matrix algebra (based on a Gibbs' vector That has complex Cayley's matrices... | |
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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. 
