vector:

See P. Gustyatnikov and S. Reznichenko, Vector Algebra (1988); J. E. Marsden and A. Tromba, Vector Calculus (1988).

Sections in this article:

• Introduction
• Representation and Reference Systems
• Addition and Multiplication of Vectors
• Vector Analysis and Vector Space
• Bibliography

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