Tony Vladusich on Nostr: nprofile1q…ufa4k I just read this quote while reading your book Gauge Fields, Knots ...
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I just read this quote while reading your book Gauge Fields, Knots & Gravity, and I thought immediately of what you said above 🤣:
And it is a noteworthy fact that ignorant men have long been in advance of the learned about vectors.
Ignorant people, like Faraday, naturally think in vectors. They know nothing of their formal manipu-
lation, but if they think about vectors, they think of them as vectors, that is, directed magnitudes. No
ignorant man could or would think about the three components of a vector separately, and disconnected
from one another. That is a device of learned mathematicians, to enable them to evade vectors. The
device is often useful, especially for calculating purposes, but for general purposes of reasoning the
manipulation of scalar components instead of the vector itself is entirely wrong.
-Oliver Heaviside
I just read this quote while reading your book Gauge Fields, Knots & Gravity, and I thought immediately of what you said above 🤣:
And it is a noteworthy fact that ignorant men have long been in advance of the learned about vectors.
Ignorant people, like Faraday, naturally think in vectors. They know nothing of their formal manipu-
lation, but if they think about vectors, they think of them as vectors, that is, directed magnitudes. No
ignorant man could or would think about the three components of a vector separately, and disconnected
from one another. That is a device of learned mathematicians, to enable them to evade vectors. The
device is often useful, especially for calculating purposes, but for general purposes of reasoning the
manipulation of scalar components instead of the vector itself is entirely wrong.
-Oliver Heaviside