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I was appalled to find that the mathematical notation on which I had been raised failed to fill the needs of the courses I was assigned, and I began work on extensions to notation that might serve. In particular, I adopted the matrix algebra used in my thesis work, the systematic use of matrices and higher-dimensional arrays learned in a course in Tensor Analysis rashly taken in my third year at Queen’s, and the notion of Operators in the sense introduced by Heaviside in his treatment of Maxwell’s equations. (en) |
