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One of my best memories in college was going through wedge product, differential forms and connections, and its application in the derivation of Maxwell's equat
by organicfigs 7y ago
One of my best memories in college was going through wedge product, differential forms and connections, and its application in the derivation of Maxwell's equations. When going through it, I always assumed someone came in and wrote those generalized forms (for students of differential forms: no pun intended ;) of his equations 50-100 years later. It's crazy to think that's how he approached E&M from a preliminary perspective.
- lmm 7y ago> When going through it, I always assumed someone came in and wrote those generalized forms (for students of differential forms: no pun intended ;) of his equations 50-100 years later. That's true though? Someone else here said the modern formulation is due to Heaviside; Maxwell's original version had dozens of equations because we didn't have all that vector calculus notation at the time.