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Green’s Functions of Classical Fields

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Solving boundary value problems of electromagnetic fields was the historical starting point for the development of the Green’s function formalism. The person after whom these functions were named—George Green—published an essay in 1828 in which he introduced special functions to solve certain boundary value problems of the Poisson equation (Green 1850, 1852, and 1854). Unfortunately, this essay sank into oblivion shortly after its publication until it was rediscovered in 1846 by the later Lord Kelvin. In a paper, published in 1993, F. Dyson considered the invention of these functions as a methodical revolution in physics which was as important as the invention of computers in our days (Dyson 1993).

Metaphysics is the desperate attempt of the physicist to escape Faraday’s cage of rationality

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Rother, T. (2017). Green’s Functions of Classical Fields. In: Green’s Functions in Classical Physics. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 938. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52437-5_3

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