[Elecraft] OT James Clerk Maxwell

[Fred Jensen]

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
Sparks NV DM09dn
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.
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> There is an excellent book on Heaviside, who was a genius in his own right:
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> “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>
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> Just in case anyone is looking for a good book in this time of self-isolation,.
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> 73,
>
> Kevin VE7ZD
>