> 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) ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list For help: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list or at our remote archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu