Maxwell’s Mathematical Rhetoric: Rethinking the Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism

Maxwell’s Mathematical Rhetoric: Rethinking the Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism

Thomas K. Simpson
Role: Author
Written by a Tutor Emeritus of St. Johns College.

This is the first major study of Maxwell’s Treatise to take seriously the way Maxwell’s presents his arguments. Simpson identifies the distinctively rhetorical functions of mathematics, as Maxwell employs them in the Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism.

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