Kirk Borne

"Vector: A Surprising Story of Space, Time, and Mathematical Transformation" Find it here: https://t.co/6vomnSEvTS Amazon description: A celebration of the seemingly simple idea that allowed us to imagine the world in new dimensions—sparking both controversy and discovery.  Vector and tensor calculus offers an elegant language for expressing the way things behave in space and time, and Robyn Arianrhod shows how this enabled physicists and mathematicians to think in a brand-new way. These include James Clerk Maxwell when he ushered in the wireless electromagnetic age; Einstein when he predicted the curving of space-time and the existence of gravitational waves; Paul Dirac, when he created quantum field theory; and Emmy Noether, when she connected mathematical symmetry and the conservation of energy. It turned out that it’s not just physical quantities and dimensions that vectors and tensors can represent, but other dimensions and other kinds of information, too. This is why physicists and mathematicians can speak of four-dimensional space-time and other higher-dimensional “spaces,” and why you’re likely relying on vectors or tensors whenever you use digital applications such as search engines, GPS, or your mobile phone.