Michael J. Crowe

Michael J. Crowe (born 1936) is Rev. John J. Cavanaugh Professor Emeritus in the Program of Liberal Studies and Graduate Program in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Notre Dame.[1] He is best known for writing the influential book A History of Vector Analysis.[2] After the Great Vector Debate of the 1890s it was generally assumed that quaternions had been superseded by vector analysis. But in his book, published in 1967, Crowe showed how, contrarily, vector analysis directly stemmed from the quaternions.[3] In 1994 a new edition was published.[4]

  1. ^ Michael Crowe: Rev. John J. Cavanaugh, C.S.C. Professor Emeritus in the Humanities Program of Liberal Studies University of Notre Dame: John J. Reilly Center
  2. ^ Michael J. Crowe, A History of Vector Analysis Review by William C. Waterhouse, Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, vol. 78, no. 3, May 1972
  3. ^ p. 12 of Michael J. Crowe, 'A History of Vector Analysis' (talk at University of Louisville, 2002)
  4. ^ Michael J. Crowe, A History of Vector Analysis, review by P. N. Ruane, MAA Reviews, 14 April 2012