High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Vector Analysis is a book on vector calculus first published in 1901 by Edwin Bidwell Wilson. Its subtitle is "A Text-book for the use of students of mathematics and physics, founded upon the lectures of J. Willard Gibbs Ph.D. LL.D." This textbook did much to standardize vocabulary and notations for description of three-dimensional linear algebra in the twentieth century. It was reprinted in 1913, 1916, 22, 25, 29, 31, and 1943. In 1960 Dover Publications began to print and distribute this enduring textbook. It is now available on-line (see link below). The first chapter covers 3-dimensional vectors in space, the concept of a (real) scalar, and the product of a scalar with a vector. The second chapter introduces the dot product of two vectors and the cross product as well. These are extended to a scalar triple product and a quadruple product. Then in pages 77-81 one finds the essentials of spherical trigonometry, a topic of considerable value at the time due to its connection with celestial navigation. The third chapter begins the vector calculus with the introduction of the del operator.