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The book that started the revolution in the field of Electricity and Magnatism in 1871. Maxwell quantifed the observations made by Faraday and others and provided the blueprint for the 20th Centuries technical revolution.
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A classic that still is worth reading
30 Jan 2004
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Whenever I teach a course which touches on electric or magnetic phenomena I find myself going through this book. It works well with the early chapters of Jackson, in particular, and Smythe. Maxwell knew the subject thoroughly, up to the 1870s (and much of this material has since dropped out of courses and almost out of memory), his thinking was both profound and clear, and he may well be the best writer on physics in the English language. His proofs are economical and elegant. Oh yes - this book is still a good reference for the treatment of spherical harmonics and multipole expansions in Cartesian coordinates.
22 of 22 people found the following review helpful
Electricity & Magnetism defined mathematically
15 Dec 2001
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The book in my opinion coming from a calculus III student is very rigorous and one needs to have a firm foundation on Mathematics I would say about calc III or better to even try to read this book. So far I have just started but every page is exciting because he goes into a deep explanation of what is happening and going on physically and mathematically. Not to mentioned his work is very organized.
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A Treatise on Electricity & Magnetism by James Clerk Maxwell
13 Sep 2001
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The theory of electromagnetic fields was written already around 1880. This was made by Maxwell whose very original ideas are found in this treatise. To read it takes a little time as there are applied terminology and units not any more valid. However,
after carefull reading it gives out the idea of field theory. The electrostatics and electrokinematics are represented in vol 1. The theory developed Maxwell is a masterpiece of physics and will certainly have a stable position in history of natural sciences.
after carefull reading it gives out the idea of field theory. The electrostatics and electrokinematics are represented in vol 1. The theory developed Maxwell is a masterpiece of physics and will certainly have a stable position in history of natural sciences.
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