The Mathematical Theory of Electricity and Magnetism, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)

Professor Maxwell swork on Electricity and Magnetism has necessarily reduced all subsequent treatises on these subjects to the rank of commentaries. Hardly any advances have been made in the theory of these branches of physics during the last thirteen years of which the first suggestions may not be found in Maxwell sbook. But the very excellence of the work, regarded from the highest physical point of view, is in some respects a hindrance to its efficiency as a students text-book. Written as it is under the conviction of the para mount importance of the physical as contrasted with the purely mathematical aspects of the subject, and therefore with the determination not to be diverted from the immediate contemplation of experimental facts to the development of any theory however fas cinating, the style is suggestive rather than didactic, and the mathematical treatment is occasionally some what unfinished and obscure. It is possible, therefore, that the present work, of which the first volume is now offered to students of the mathematical theory of electricity, may be of service as an introduction to, or commentary upon, Maxwell sbook.
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