The Classical Preisach Model of Hysteresis

Abstract

This model has a long and instructive history which can be best charecterized by the following eloquent statement of J. Larmor made in the preface to the book [11]:

...scientific progress, considered historically, is not a strictly logical process, and does not proceed by syllogisms. New ideas emerge dimly into intuition, come into consciousness from nobody knows where, and become the material on which the mind operates, forging them gradually into consistent doctrine, which can be welded on to existing domains of knowledge.