Of all the items in this list, this is the only one for
which a project with interim results is not yet in place.
As a potential area of deep simplification whose promise
I can only imagine, however, it continually reminds me
what some of our stuff might look like to new readers
who are wondering why they should wade in...
Bamberg and Sternberg, "A Course in Mathematics for Students of Physics" (Cambridge U. Press, 1988).
Postscript: Since this page was put together
on 8 May 1999, David has been awarded the American Association
of Physics Teacher's Oersted Award, and published some lovely
notes on this subject in the American Journal of Physics.
These in turn did inspire
a
few Mathematica notes on the
subject. These struggle in part with questions about multi-vector
units, and dual spaces, that may be important for marrying this language
up with real world applications.
This page is hosted by the UM-StL Department of Physics
and Astronomy, but P. Fraundorf is responsible for errors.
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