It's fun to hear your thoughts about Jackson. Pseudovectors didn't surprise me at all--it just seemed like a natural result of defining vectors more rigorously and in a way more useful for physics.
But I still like the mathematical definition of a vector: anything that satisfies all those axioms. I'm assuming that pseudovectors do in fact fall under the umbrella of mathematical vectors, but I'm not checking the definitions at the moment.
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Date: 2006-09-26 06:08 am (UTC)But I still like the mathematical definition of a vector: anything that satisfies all those axioms. I'm assuming that pseudovectors do in fact fall under the umbrella of mathematical vectors, but I'm not checking the definitions at the moment.