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Faraday is a similar figure- experimentalist who invented fields, the electric motor and the dynamo. But with little math skills it remained until Maxwell to ti
by peter303 12y ago
Faraday is a similar figure- experimentalist who invented fields, the electric motor and the dynamo. But with little math skills it remained until Maxwell to tie it all together in math.
- evanb 12y agoFaraday's discoveries were quickly (or preemptively) "mathified" by Ampere, Coulomb, Gauss, (and Heaviside!). Maxwell got the equations named after him for "unifying" them, as it were, and on the basis of symmetry suggesting the displacement current term (which then leads to the wave equation, showing light is electromagnetic radiation).