Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #530202 in Books
- Published on: 1987-08-31
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .1 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 336 pages
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`... destiny authors will owe a good debt to Professors Hestenes and Sobczyk for this pioneering work.' Foundations of Physics, 16, 1986 `I repeat that GC enriches and simplifies all it touches, not only on an modernized turn though also, and maybe even some-more so, on an facile level. we am assured that GC should be taught to undergraduate in place of a normal approaches to matrix algebra and analysis.' James S. Marsh in American Journal of Physics `If a production village seizes a event represented by this book, and we wish it does, this book will turn a text and a bible of GC.' American Journal of Physics, 53:5 (1985)
About a Author
David Hesteness is awarded a Oersted Medal for 2002. The Oersted Award recognizes important contributions to a training of physics. It is a many prestigious endowment conferred by a American Association of Physics Teachers.
By David Hestenes
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70 of 71 people found a following examination helpful.
a matrimony of geometry and algebra done in heaven
By Ananda Himansu
In 1990, we came opposite Hestenes' book New Foundations for Classical Mechanics in a university bookstore, and immediately purchased it. In 1999, we finally purchased a paperback chronicle of CA to GC (Kluwer, greatfully keep a paperback in print!). An operative by training, we was formerly usually informed with college matrix research and with indicial tensor notation. These dual books revolutionized my bargain of a algebraic illustration of geometric information. Amazon.com now has a "look inside" underline in place for this book, so we can check a list of contents.
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In CA to GC, a authors benefaction a tour-de-force of mathematical exposition, a essay displaying a same clarity and pointing that outlines all of Hestenes' writing. While further-refined versions of most of a element of a book can now be downloaded in a form of pdf files from Hestenes' website, this book will go down in story as a classical of unifying mathematical exposition. The university tyro should start with a New Foundations for Classical Mechanics book, though CA to GC should be examination by each mathematician, physicist and engineering scientist. The reader considering training Clifford algebra/analysis should also take a demeanour during a fast flourishing volume of information online, and during other books on a subject. It is an respect for me to be a initial reviewer of this book on Amazon.com.
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Exact one denunciation for production and mathematics
By Omar Leon Sanchez
i have been operative a few years in geometric calculus and i trust this book should be in each residence of each geometrist and each chairman that is intersted in geometric concepts with production applications
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