An Essay on the Application of Mathematical Analysis to the Theories of Electricity and Magnetism

by George Green

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First edition

Nottingham: Printed for the author, by T. Wheelhouse, 1828. First edition, “excessively rare” Wheeler Gift , of “one of the major publications in the mathematics of the 19th century” Landmark Writings, p. 403 , in which Green revolutionized the study of potential theory as we now understand it and coined the term ‘potential’ in this context , and introduced ‘Green’s theorem’ and

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