This is the story of best friends Peter Tait and James Clerk Maxwell and how their friendship with William Thomson (aka Lord Kelvin) and Tait's rivalries with Willard Gibbs, Oliver Heaviside, Heinrich Hertz, August Föppl, and Edwin Wilson led to vector analysis.

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0:00 Introduction
1:37 Part 1: Tait & Maxwell (1846-1856)
7:25 Part 2: Tait, Hamilton & Quaternions (1854-1867)
17:04 Part 3: Maxwell, His Equations & Quaternions (1856-1879)
25:00 Part 4: Gibbs (1873-1884)
29:18 Part 5: Heaviside (1873-1887)
34:26 Part 6: Hertz changes the game (1887-1890)
38:17 Part 7: War of the Vectors begins (1890-1894)
43:38 Part 8: Tait Loses the War (1894-1901)
51:00 Conclusion