Flood, Raymond University of Oxford
McCartney, Mark University of Ulster
Whitaker, Andrew The Queen's University, Belfast
Print publication date: 2008 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2008
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-923125-6







doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199231256.003.0003

I. Grattan-Guinness
Abstract: This chapter reviews the early works of William Thomson. Thomson began to publish exceptionally early, in 1841, while still in his late teens; and a steady stream of papers came from him thereafter. Most of them in the 1840s concerned heat diffusion, electricity, or magnetism, and related mathematical methods such as the Fourier series and potential theory. These papers manifest a procedure of working by analogy in which methods were taken from one topic and adapted for use in another one.

Keywords: publications, heat theory, electricity, magnetism, Fourier series,

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