David Hestenes

David Orlin Hestenes ( born 1933 ) is an American physicist.

Hestenes in 1963 at the University of California, Los Angeles ( UCLA) PhD and spent 30 years as a professor at Arizona State University where he is Professor Emeritus today.

Hestenes is known for its program of geometric algebra ( Clifford algebra ), with whom he wants to make a reformulation of the presentation of the theoretical physics popular.

From 1976 to 1979 he was associate editor of the American Journal of Physics. In 2002 he received the Oersted Medal.

He is the son of Magnus Hestenes.

Writings

  • New Foundations of classical mechanics, Boston, Dordrecht, Reidel Publishing, 1986, 2nd edition, Springer 1999, ISBN 0792355148
  • With David Sobczyk: Clifford algebras to geometric calculus: a unified language for mathematics and physics, Boston, Dordrecht, Reidel Publishing 1984
  • Algebra space -time, New York, Gordon and Breach 1966
  • With Antonio Weingartshofer (Editor): Electron - theory and experiment, Kluwer 1991
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