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["john lipsius" <johnlipsius@xxxxxxxxx>]

Actually, there's no such thing as formulism, so
yer *both* wrong.  How d'ya like dem apples?
It's formalism.  To be concise and rigorous, that is.


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  From: Bob McNamara
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  Subject: [SI-LIST] Re: BBC Presentation--James Clark Maxwell


  > Maxwell, along with Micheal Faraday, Benjamin Franklin, Gauss and
  > Lorentz are considered the fathers of Electromagnetic theory, with
  > Maxwell creating a concise mathematical formulism in the form of
  > the 4 Electromagnetic Equations, commonly known as Maxwell's
  > Equations.

  Actually the concise formulism is the work of Oliver Heaviside:

    "Heaviside was able to greatly simplify Maxwell's 20 equations in
     20 variables, replacing them by four equations in two variables.
     Today we call these 'Maxwell's equations' forgetting that they
     are in fact 'Heaviside's equations'."

  (from http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Heaviside.html)


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