Abstract
“VIEILLE école, bonne ecole, hey?” said Major Pendennis, and the remark is irresistibly suggested by the contents and scope of a work which “covers the schedule for Part I of the Tripos”, untouched and undismayed by the drums and tramplings of one knows not how many conquests. Here the student will find an old story admirably retold, and he who would learn to deal effectively with such problems as demand a good working knowledge of Laplace's equation, the method of images, distribution in networks of conductors, self-and mutual-inductance and, the like, will find the president of Magdalene's volume an efficient and trustworthy guide. He will have much more to learn before he arrives at the confines of modern knowledge of electricity, but he will have nothing to unlearn, and a careful study of the book will provide him with knowledge likely to be of great help in his later studies.
Electricity and Magnetism:
an Introduction to the Mathematical Theory. By A. S. Ramsey. Pp. xi + 267. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1937.) 10s. 6d.
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F., A. Electricity and Magnetism:. Nature 142, 896 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142896c0
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