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Publisher: Cambridge [Eng.] : University PressPublication date: 1911Subjects: Tait, Peter Guthrie, 1831-1901Physicists -- Great BritainNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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PREFACE. TN the present edition this work has been very greatly en-larged; to the extent, in fact, of more than one-third. Had I not determined to keep the book iu moderate compass it might easily have been doubled in size. A good deal of re-arrangement also has been thought advisable, especially with reference to the elementary uses of q( )q~ and of V. Prominent among the additions is an entire Chapter, on the Analytical Aspect of Quaternions, which I owe bo the unsolicited kindness of Prof. Cayley. As will be seen by the reader of the former Preface (reprinted below) the point of view which I have, from the first, adopted presents Quaternions as a Calculus uniquely adapted to Euclidian space, and therefore specially useful in several of the most important branches of Physical Science. After giving the necessary geometrical and other preliminaries, I have endeavoured to de-velope it entirely from this point of view; and, though one can scarcely avoid meeting with elegant and often

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An Old Treatise on Vector Algebra.
The title is a total misnomer. Since the original was written in 1873, "quaternions" was used instead of "vectors". The text has nothing to offer about quaternions defined as a + bi + cj + dk. If you want to reshash a lot of old vector algebra proofs via geometry then this is your cup of tea. But if it's quaternions that you're after, look elsewhere. ... Read more

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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1873 edition by the Clarendon Press, Oxford. ... Read more

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Originally published in 1890.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more