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Faraday didn't even know trigonometry, allegedly (he never studied mathematics). It's interesting that his student (Maxwell) who did have the mathematical backg
by duped 3y ago
Faraday didn't even know trigonometry, allegedly (he never studied mathematics). It's interesting that his student (Maxwell) who did have the mathematical background would extend his theories and figure out the math to explain it all
- mikeiavelli 3y agoMaxwell was deeply influenced by Faraday's work but he was not his student: he first noticed Faraday’s work while he was at Cambridge in the 1850s. He found a way to translate Faraday’s experimental findings (expressed as the interaction of "lines of force") into a mathematical model (with fields), also taking into account Coulomb's and Ampère's laws. Maxwell then extended that model to take into account the conservation of charge / the continuity of currents. While Maxwell’s work was inspired by Faraday's, it was also built upon the contributions of many other scientists (Coulomb, Ampère, Thomson, Neumann, Lenz, ...)