OT James Clerk Maxwell

[Dave Sublette-2]

A brief, but excellent video on you tube discusses Maxwell and his
importance in history.  If you are not familiar with "The History Guy",
this is an excellent way to become acquainted with him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuWEqE4k230

73,

Dave, K4TO
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[Clay Autery-2]

Awesome, thank you!

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On 03/25/20 22:01, Dave Sublette wrote:
> A brief, but excellent video on you tube discusses Maxwell and his
> importance in history.  If you are not familiar with "The History Guy",
> this is an excellent way to become acquainted with him.
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuWEqE4k230
>
> 73,
>
> Dave, K4TO
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[Kevin McQuiggin (SFU)]

It is also of value to read about Professor Oliver Heaviside, a less-heralded but brilliant mathematician and physicist who was able to simplify Maxwell’s very complex electromagnetic theory of about 30 equations down to a much more understandable set of 4 or 6 equations.  It is Heaviside’s re-interpretation and simplification of Maxwell’s original equations that are taught and used today.

There is an excellent book on Heaviside, who was a genius in his own right:

“The Forgotten Genius of Oliver Heaviside”, available on Amazon, see https://www.amazon.com/Forgotten-Genius-Oliver-Heaviside-Electrical-ebook/dp/B01N0S90BN/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=genius+heaviside&qid=1585197188&sr=8-1 <https://www.amazon.com/Forgotten-Genius-Oliver-Heaviside-Electrical-ebook/dp/B01N0S90BN/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=genius+heaviside&qid=1585197188&sr=8-1>

Just in case anyone is looking for a good book in this time of self-isolation,.

73,

Kevin VE7ZD

> On Mar 25, 2020, at 8:01 PM, Dave Sublette <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> A brief, but excellent video on you tube discusses Maxwell and his
> importance in history.  If you are not familiar with "The History Guy",
> this is an excellent way to become acquainted with him.
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuWEqE4k230
>
> 73,
>
> Dave, K4TO
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[John Langdon]

I heartily recommend this book, the best I have seen on Heaviside https://www.amazon.com/Maxwellians-Cornell-History-Science/dp/0801482348 

He had a tough childhood and became a telegrapher and virtually self-taught physicist who laid the foundations for modern electrical engineering.

73 John N5CQ


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It is also of value to read about Professor Oliver Heaviside, a less-heralded but brilliant mathematician and physicist who was able to simplify Maxwell’s very complex electromagnetic theory of about 30 equations down to a much more understandable set of 4 or 6 equations.  It is Heaviside’s re-interpretation and simplification of Maxwell’s original equations that are taught and used today.

There is an excellent book on Heaviside, who was a genius in his own right:

“The Forgotten Genius of Oliver Heaviside”, available on Amazon, see https://www.amazon.com/Forgotten-Genius-Oliver-Heaviside-Electrical-ebook/dp/B01N0S90BN/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=genius+heaviside&qid=1585197188&sr=8-1 <https://www.amazon.com/Forgotten-Genius-Oliver-Heaviside-Electrical-ebook/dp/B01N0S90BN/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=genius+heaviside&qid=1585197188&sr=8-1>

Just in case anyone is looking for a good book in this time of self-isolation,.

73,

Kevin VE7ZD

> On Mar 25, 2020, at 8:01 PM, Dave Sublette <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> A brief, but excellent video on you tube discusses Maxwell and his
> importance in history.  If you are not familiar with "The History
> Guy", this is an excellent way to become acquainted with him.
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuWEqE4k230
>
> 73,
>
> Dave, K4TO
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I have often recommended Daniel Fleisch’s book, A Student’s Guide to Maxwell’s Equations, to my students.  In it he credits G. F. FitzGerald, Oliver Heaviside, Oliver Lodge, and Heinrich Hertz for simplifying Maxwell’s equations to the few that we often see today.

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On Mar 25, 2020, at 11:01 PM, Dave Sublette <[hidden email]> wrote:

A brief, but excellent video on you tube discusses Maxwell and his
importance in history.  If you are not familiar with "The History Guy",
this is an excellent way to become acquainted with him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuWEqE4k230

73,

Dave, K4TO
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Yes.  However, Oliver Heaviside had the advantage of both vector
calculus and operational mathematics which he sort of invented.  Maxwell
did it "old school." Regardless of who you favor, the theory took on new
meaning for me when a professor pointed out ...

"We can measure electromagnetic radiation from it's earliest beginnings
and many billions of light years away in any direction we choose and it
always obeys Maxwell's analysis to whatever precision we can muster." 
And, my life-long hobby works because of that.

73,
Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
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Washoe County

On 3/25/2020 9:38 PM, Kevin McQuiggin wrote:

> It is also of value to read about Professor Oliver Heaviside, a less-heralded but brilliant mathematician and physicist who was able to simplify Maxwell’s very complex electromagnetic theory of about 30 equations down to a much more understandable set of 4 or 6 equations.  It is Heaviside’s re-interpretation and simplification of Maxwell’s original equations that are taught and used today.
>
> There is an excellent book on Heaviside, who was a genius in his own right:
>
> “The Forgotten Genius of Oliver Heaviside”, available on Amazon, see https://www.amazon.com/Forgotten-Genius-Oliver-Heaviside-Electrical-ebook/dp/B01N0S90BN/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=genius+heaviside&qid=1585197188&sr=8-1 <https://www.amazon.com/Forgotten-Genius-Oliver-Heaviside-Electrical-ebook/dp/B01N0S90BN/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=genius+heaviside&qid=1585197188&sr=8-1>
>
> Just in case anyone is looking for a good book in this time of self-isolation,.
>
> 73,
>
> Kevin VE7ZD
>

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[Pete Michaelis - N8TR]

Another very good book about Oliver Heavyside is
Paul Nahin's  Oliver Heaviside: Sage in Solitude: The Life, Work,
and Times of an Electrical Genius in the Victorian Age:

https://www.amazon.com/Oliver-Heaviside-Solitude-Electrical-Victorian/dp/0879422386

73 Pete - N8TR




At 12:38 AM 3/26/2020, Kevin McQuiggin wrote:
>It is also of value to read about Professor
>Oliver Heaviside, a less-heralded but brilliant
>mathematician and physicist who was able to
>simplify Maxwell’s very complex
>electromagnetic theory of about 30 equations
>down to a much more understandable set of 4 or 6
>equations.  It is Heaviside’s
>re-interpretation and simplification of
>Maxwell’s original equations that are taught and used today.
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