which profession can this be useful in?
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who was josiah willard gibbs? An American scientist when was he born? February 11, 1839 which field of science was he involved with? Physics, chemistry, and mathematics. which institution did he complete his education in? Sheffield Scientific School and Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. was he married? No what career did he take up in the year 1880-1903? From 1880 to 84 he worked on developing the exterior algebra into a vector calculus and it was published in a book in 1901. was he successful in developing this calculus? Yes how many fields does this calculus have? One
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Vector calculus [SEP] Vector fields
A vector field is an assignment of a vector to each point in a space. A vector field in the plane, for instance, can be visualized as a collection of arrows with a given magnitude and direction each attached to a point in the plane. Vector fields are often used to model, for example, the speed and direction of a moving fluid throughout space, or the strength and direction of some force, such as the magnetic or gravitational force, as it changes from point to point. This can be used, for example, to calculate work done over a line.