So a married couple at Oregon State University- he is a mathematician, she a physicist- have written some papers, books and have a website discussing the subtleties of the different ways that mathematicians and physicists or other scientists use and think about vector calculus, or calculus of one variable for that matter, and discuss the advantages and disadvantages, pedagogic and otherwise, of these various approaches. He has also written a book on Special Relativity and an undergraduate (!) book on General Relativity. What I've seen so far of this stuff is very promising.
I already spammed the rolling math thread and one other physics thread and got no takers so starting this standalone.
― Cutset Creator (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 6 December 2014 01:15 (ten years ago)