# A unified mathematical language for physics and engineering in the 21st century

@article{Lasenby2000AUM,
title={A unified mathematical language for physics and engineering in the 21st century},
author={Joan Lasenby and A. Lasenby and C. Doran},
journal={Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences},
year={2000},
volume={358},
pages={21 - 39}
}
• Published 2000
• Mathematics, Physics, Biology
• Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
The late 18th and 19th centuries were times of great mathematical progress. Many new mathematical systems and languages were introduced by some of the millennium'greatest mathematicians. Amongst these were the algebras of Clifford and Grassmann. While these algebras caused considerable interest at the time, they were largely abandoned with the introduction of what people saw as a more straightforward and more generally applicable algebra: the vector algebra of Gibbs. This was effectively the… Expand
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