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Looks like Geometric Algebra is something that has been talked about quite a lot lately. (It is "vector algebra done right.")
by Koshkin 7y ago
Looks like Geometric Algebra is something that has been talked about quite a lot lately. (It is "vector algebra done right.")
- madhadron 7y agoGeometric algebra is something that hasn't found a "killer app," if you will. The largest users of vector calculus are physicists and engineers, and those communities have 1) enormous existing literature using Gibbs-Heaviside vectors, and 2) enormous institutional investment in teaching them across departments. We haven't found a justification for switching that would outweigh the amount of inertia involved. It's hardly a new thing. David Hestenes has been writing books about its advantages in physics since the 1960's.
- lonelappde 7y agoThat's fashionable computer science, not fashionable mathematics. In math it's a minor alternative formulation for a relatively concrete (aka boring) topic. (coordinate vectors).