John J. Cavanaugh Professor Emeritus in the Program of Liberal Studies and Graduate Program in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Notre Dame.
But in his book, published in 1967, Crowe showed how, contrarily, vector analysis directly stemmed from the quaternions.
[4] Crowe earned a BA in the Program of Liberal Studies and a BS in Science from the University of Notre Dame in 1958.
Thereafter Crowe wrote on various topics, from the history of physics and astronomy,[6] to the Gestalt shifts in the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
In 2010 Crowe was awarded the LeRoy E. Doggett Prize for Historical Astronomy by the American Astronomical Society.