The comprehension, some problems and suggestions to symbolic vector method and some defenses for Gibbs' symbol
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: The comprehension, some problems and suggestions to symbolic vector method and some defenses for Gibbs' symbol
zbMATH Open document ID: 0993.53006
DOI: 10.1007/BF02459044
author: Kemin Sheng
author: Zhenting Xue
author: Jinsheng Tang
author: Xuemei Huang
published in: Applied Mathematics and Mechanics. (English Edition)
publication date: 2002-09-23T00:00:00Z
review text: The product model of the Gibbs' operator is true in a Cartesian coordinate system but some mistakes may be made when it is used in other orthogonal coordinate systems. Many scientists made efforts to present various methods to solve this problem. At the beginning of the 1990s, C. T. Tai has presented the concept of symbolic vector and a systematic theory of it, and the problem was solved entirely. In the present paper the authors present the comprehension of Tai's symbolic vector method in vector analysis, next some problems are found and some suggestions are provided to solve them. Some defenses for Gibbs' symbol are given as well.
reviewed by: Neculai Papaghiuc
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53A45
zbMATH DE Number: 1506304
zbMATH Keywords: symbolic vector method
zbMATH Keywords: vector product model
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
cites work: Struktur der Materie
cites work: Q4888140
cites work: Unified definition of divergence, curl, and gradient
full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02459044
OpenAlex ID: W2043059641
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1506304