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Vectors in two dimensions have already been studied in Volume I Chapter 4. Geometric concepts in higher dimensions make the use of vectors even more essential. Vectors serve to express many complicated equations concisely in a manner clearly exhibiting those features that do not depend on a particular choice of coordinate systems.
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Courant, R., John, F. (1989). Vectors, Matrices, Linear Transformations. In: Introduction to Calculus and Analysis. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8958-3_2
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