the origin of concept vector

[Southmountain]

I am helping my kids to refresh their high school math and ran into vector section. now I wonder who invented/discovered this concept from beginning? Issac Newton, in the book of Principia? or Pascal?

diligent hands rule....

[David ONeil]

"... The term vector was introduced by William Rowan Hamilton as part of a ... " Maybe?

Our Forgotten Astronomy | Object Oriented Programming with C++ | Wordle solver

[Amarnath S]

A History of Vector Analysis: The Evolution of the Idea of a Vectorial System (Dover Books on Mathematics) https://amzn.eu/d/eixR7W9

This book would help.

[Southmountain]

very useful link! thank you:rose:

diligent hands rule....

[Southmountain]

thanks for the info. I bought this kindle version of book.

diligent hands rule....