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Description
No calculus needed, but this is not an elementary book. Introduces vectors, algebraic notation and basic ideas, vector algebra, and scalars. Covers areas of parallelograms, triple products, moments, angular velocity, areas and vectorial addition, and more. Concludes with discussion of tensors. Includes 386 exercises.
About the Author
Banesh Hoffmann (1906-86) received his PhD from Princeton University. At Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, he collaborated with Albert Einstein and Leopold Infeld on the classic paper Gravitational Equations and the Problem of Motion. Hoffmann taught at Queens College for more than 40 years.