http://www.netvouz.com/narky/tag/vectors?feed=rss narky's bookmarks tagged "vectors" on Netvouz http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vector_calculus&oldid=81357662 Vector calculus (also called vector analysis) is a field of mathematics concerned with multivariate real analysis of vectors in two or more dimensions. It consists of a suite of formulas and problem solving techniques very useful for engineering and physics. Vector analysis has its origin in quaternion analysis, and was formulated by the American scientist, J. Willard Gibbs [1]. It concerns vector fields, which associate a vector to every point in space, and scalar fields, which associate a scalar to every point in space. For example, the temperature of a swimming pool is a scalar field: to each point we associate a scalar value of temperature. The water flow in the same pool is a vector field: to each point we associate a velocity vector. Educational > Mathematics > Ideas/Explanations/Wiki or Mathworld lookups narky Tue, 24 Oct 2006 08:44:56 GMT