The Man Who Changed Everything
The Life of James Clerk Maxwell
by Basil Mahonr
Companion book - how did we actually learn about the electromagnetic spectrum:
Oliver Heaviside
The Life, Work, and Times of an Electrical Genius of the Victorian Age
by Paul J Nahin
Heaviside was self taught, lived with his mother, hated field equations - which to him were abominations- so he changed them into vector equations - thus becoming a “genius” on someone else’s dime.
Thank you.
I look forward to reading these.
I think I’ve read more books after 50 (i’m 52) than in all the years before :)
Actually it’s sad but it is what it is. Didn’t get interested until older.