Definition:Vector/Historical Note
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Historical Note on Vector
The term vector was coined by William Rowan Hamilton.
The meaning he assigned to the concept corresponds closely to the arrow representation as defined on $\mathsf{Pr} \infty \mathsf{fWiki}$.
Sources
- 1853: William Rowan Hamilton: Lectures on Quaternions
- 1921: C.E. Weatherburn: Elementary Vector Analysis ... (previous) ... (next): Chapter $\text I$. Addition and Subtraction of Vectors. Centroids: Definitions: $2$. Length vectors (footnote $*$)