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Contents 1 TODO 1.1 Personal History 1.2 Works 1.3 Broken Link

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[edit] Personal History

• Where was he born?

• When, where and by what did he earn his Ph.D.?

• When was the Oersted Medal awarded?

[edit] Works

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• Space-Time Algebra (1966)

• with Garret Sobczyk: Clifford Algebra to Geometric Calculus (1987)

• Eds. J. S. R. Chisholm and R. K. Common: Clifford Algebras and Their Applications in Mathematical Physics. Proceedings of 1985 NATO and SERC Workshop at the University of Canterbury, Kent, England (1986)

• New Foundations for Classical Mechanics (1985, 1999)

• The Electron (1991)

• Mathematical tools for thinking physicists]. Public Lecture at the 9th Annual Spring Meeting of the North Carolina Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers (NCS-AAPT) at Davidson College (October 29-30, 2004). So Hestenes is still active. Here is a link to the Programme.

The following is the text of the abstract, copied here for convenience:

Mathematics is essential for understanding physics, so how should that play out in the high school math/science curriculum? “Conceptual physics” courses ignore the problem. Mathematics teachers are oblivious to the problem. Physics teachers, at least, can understand the problem, though curriculum reform is fraught with difficulty.

We answer two questions: (1) what mathematics is most essential for general scientific literacy? (2) What mathematics is optimal for the math/physics curriculum? The answer to the second question is a pea(->e)k into the future –– an introduction to a new mathematical language called Geometric Algebra that integrates algebra, geometry, and trigonometry into a coherent system that simplifies and enhances applications to physics.

References: D Hestenes, Oersted Medal Lecture 2002: Reforming the mathematical language of physics, AJP 71: 104-121(2003). Available at http://modelingnts.la.asu.edu/. Information and references on Modeling Instruction at http://modeling.asu.edu/.

Future?:

• New Foundations of Mathematical Physics alias NFII

[edit] Broken Link

the link Emeritus page at ASU at the very end, is broken. Cláudio Valente