Elements of the Mathematical Theory of Electricity and Magnetism Elementary Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, founded on Joubert's “Traité Elémentaire d'Électricité”

Abstract

PROF. THOMSON'S book will do good in many ways. Even its title will correct a wrong impression which very generally prevails, to the effect that just so much of the fundamentals and facts of the subject as can be discussed with the aid of a smattering of geometry and algebra, constitutes the truly elementary theory of electricity. On the contrary, students will find that the phrase Elements of Electricity and Magnetism really means that satisfactory grounding in essential ideas and their relations which is only possible to a student whose mathematical education has been or is being made adequate to the study of the higher parts of electricity. No important part of the subject is omitted, and of course this brings into play here and there mathematical processes more recondite than some which many practical men seem to shrink from. But there is no obtrusion of purely mathematical discussion; the analysis arises just where it is wanted, to the extent to which it is wanted, and goes no further.

Elements of the Mathematical Theory of Electricity and Magnetism.

By J. J. Thomson, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics in the University of Cambridge. Pp. vi + 510. (The Cambridge University Press, 1895.)

Elementary Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, founded on Joubert's “Traité Elémentaire d'Électricité.”

By G. C. Foster, Quain Professor of Physics in University College, London; and E. Atkinson, Ph.D., formerly Professor of Experimental Science in the Staff College. Pp. xix + 552. (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1896.)