My new book Vector received a nice mention in Mathematics Magazine last week. It begins: “This remarkable book relates the history of vectors and tensors, including relevant biographical information about the main progenitors of the concepts….”

As the reviewer goes on to say, the book increases in complexity: the first third is an “easy read;” the middle section is about the role in the story of vectors that Maxwell and his equations of electromagnetism (the equations that led to the discovery of radio waves, and ultimately to our wireless tech); and the final third is more demanding, venturing into curved spaces, spacetime, and the maths of tensors, which Einstein made famous in his general theory of relativity. I wanted to offer plenty of “brain candy” in this book, but I always write in the hope that readers who want less mathematics at any point can skip over the detail and still enjoy the story 🙂