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MAXWELL, James Clerk (1831-1879). "On the Mathematical Classification of Physical Quantities." Offprint from Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, Vol. III, No. 34. [London, 1871].
8o (215 x 138 mm). Text diagrams (some very minor spotting to a few lower margins). Contemporary fawn wrappers, title and author's name inscribed on front wrapper in contemporary hand (lower margin slightly darkened, some minor marginal soiling).
FIRST EDITION, offprint issue. AN IMPORTANT WORK IN THE HISTORY OF VECTOR ANALYSIS. "Portions of the Treatise [on Electricity and Magnetism] applied quaternion formulas discovered by Tait to the field equations, and paved the way for Gibb's developments of vector analysis. Maxwell put these and various related matters in a wider context in a paper of 1870, "On the Mathematical Classification of Physical Quantities". He coined the terms 'curl', 'convergence' (negative divergence) and 'gradient'" (DSB).
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FIRST EDITION, offprint issue. AN IMPORTANT WORK IN THE HISTORY OF VECTOR ANALYSIS. "Portions of the Treatise [on Electricity and Magnetism] applied quaternion formulas discovered by Tait to the field equations, and paved the way for Gibb's developments of vector analysis. Maxwell put these and various related matters in a wider context in a paper of 1870, "On the Mathematical Classification of Physical Quantities". He coined the terms 'curl', 'convergence' (negative divergence) and 'gradient'" (DSB).