On October 16 1843, the Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton had an epiphany during a walk alongside Dublin's Royal Canal.

M is the mid-point of BC and N is the point on OB such that ON:NB = 2:1. Find expressions for these vectors, giving the answers in the simplest form: \(\overrightarrow{ON}\), \(\overrightarrow{OM}\), ...

Requiring no prior knowledge of the subject, it covers the aspects of linear algebra - vectors, matrices, and least squares - that are needed for engineering applications, discussing examples across ...

He is the author of four other books published by Cambridge University Press: A Student’s Guide to Maxwell’s Equations (2008); A Student’s Guide to Vectors and Tensors (2011); A Student’s Guide to the ...