Tag: James Clerk Maxwell

• Maths or physics ‘A’ level student? Then read this book…

  

  The Language of Mathematics: making the invisible visible Although I want to warmly recommend this book, it is not what I expected when I started reading it – another popular explanation of maths that just might contain an insight or two. Instead it is much more like a tour d’horizon of a first year of […]

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  Adrian McMenamin

  October 9, 2013

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  Bayesian probability, Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometry, featured, group theory, James Clerk Maxwell, Keith Devlin, Language of Mathematics, mathematics, Number Theory, topology

• Lorentz and Einstein

  When I was at York University earlier this week I took a break from computer science to remind myself of some of the basics of (special) relativity and was struck, while reading the opening few pages of Rindler’s Essential Relativity: Special, General, and Cosmological (which would appear to be the set text at York), just […]

  Adrian McMenamin

  September 4, 2013

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  Albert Einstein, James Clerk Maxwell, Lorentz transformation, luminiferous ether, Michelson–Morley experiment, Special relativity