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what a fucking loser

Maxwell was an evangelical Presbyterian and in his later years became an Elder of the Church of Scotland.[84] Maxwell's religious beliefs and related activities have been the focus of a number of papers.[85][86][87][88] Attending both Church of Scotland (his father's denomination) and Episcopalian (his mother's denomination) services as a child, Maxwell later underwent an evangelical conversion in April 1853. One facet of this conversion may have aligned him with an antipositivist position.[87]

>> No.9621466

Fuck off, he hung out with his wife and rode horses and wrote poetry and was king of mathematical physics. Yeah, and he was religious like every other Scot at the time

>> No.9621469

>>9621466
he wasn't that smart

he is considered an average physicist by most

>> No.9621476
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9621476

>>9621469

>> No.9621481

>>9621476
i mean weren't the equations not even his?

>> No.9621487

He was quite outspoken about women in science:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45775/lectures-to-women-on-physical-science

Other than that he was breddy good, set things up for relativity. Underrated, a solid 8.5/10 as far as big names in physics go.

>> No.9621490

>>9621481
he added an experimentally determined term curl of magnetic field one and then got his name on it but he did other things in physics
maxwell relations is one of the top of my head and is used in thermodynamics

>> No.9621495

>>9621490
not to mention his work on Maxwell-Boltzmann distributions which led on to the beginnings of quantum theory (as well as being useful in thermodynamics in general).

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>>9621459
How is he a loser?

>> No.9621609

why does he get credit for electromagnetism

>> No.9621614

>>9621609
Anti-Heaviside conspiracy. Physicists are too butthurt that an EE invented physics. Mathematicians are too butthurt than an EE invented math.

>> No.9621723

>>9621459
If Maxwell was a loser for having engaged himself in religion, then Newton and every other religious physicist was a loser too
>>9621614
>Mathematicians are too butthurt than an EE invented math
How did Heaviside invent math?

>> No.9621808

>>9621459
>Elder God Tier in STEM
>loser
Shit now that someone as lowly as yourself says he is a loser it must be true

>> No.9621831

>>9621723
but newton definitely WAS a kook

>> No.9621995

bad bait, surprising people actually fell for it

>> No.9622012

>>9621831

Newton was the alpha crackpot.

>> No.9622013

>... his illness drew out the whole heart and soul and spirit of the man: his firm and undoubting faith in the Incarnation and all its results; in the full sufficiency of the Atonement; in the work of the Holy Spirit. He had gauged and fathomed all the schemes and systems of philosophy, and had found them utterly empty and unsatisfying — "unworkable" was his own word about them — and he turned with simple faith to the Gospel of the Saviour.
damn...

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>Euler and his friend Daniel Bernoulli were opponents of Leibniz's monadism and the philosophy of Christian Wolff. Euler insisted that knowledge is founded in part on the basis of precise quantitative laws, something that monadism and Wolffian science were unable to provide. Euler's religious leanings might also have had a bearing on his dislike of the doctrine; he went so far as to label Wolff's ideas as "heathen and atheistic".[62]
>Much of what is known of Euler's religious beliefs can be deduced from his Letters to a German Princess and an earlier work, Rettung der Göttlichen Offenbahrung Gegen die Einwürfe der Freygeister (Defense of the Divine Revelation against the Objections of the Freethinkers). These works show that Euler was a devout Christian who believed the Bible to be inspired; the Rettung was primarily an argument for the divine inspiration of scripture.[63]
and /sci/ unironically calls this retard one of the greatest mathematicians of all time...

>> No.9622746

>>9621614
Heaviside just came up with the notation, the content of the equations was entirely Maxwell's.

>> No.9622952

Maxwell is by far the greatest genius of classical physics. Whoever questions that should be put out of their misery.