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It is assumed that the reader is familiar with the representation of vectors by arrows, with their addition and their resolution into components, i.e. with the vector parallelogram and its extension to three dimensions. We also assume familiarity with the dot product and later (p. 36) with the cross product. Vectors subjected to this special kind of algebra will be called Gibbs type vectors and will be denoted by boldface letters.
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Flügge, W. (1972). Vectors and Tensors. In: Tensor Analysis and Continuum Mechanics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-88382-8_1
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