Electrodynamics from Ampere to Einstein by Olivier Darrigol

Electrodynamics from Ampere to Einstein

Olivier Darrigol

552 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction history mathematics challenging informative medium-paced
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Three quarters of a century elapsed between Ampere's definition of electrodynamics and Einstein's reform of the concepts of space and time. The two events occurred in utterly different worlds: the French Academy of Sciences of the 1820s seems very...

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