James Clerk Maxwell was a Scottish mathematician of exceptional ability who took Faraday's field concept seriously and translated his physical intuitions into rigorous mathematical form, formulating equations that unified electricity and magnetism.
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“Maxwell did the thing almost nobody else was willing to do. He took Faraday's childish invisible lines of force seriously...and I am going to write it in the language of math.”
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