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[Michel]

The wiki page on Faraday says he was not very good in math:

from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Faraday

"Despite his excellence as an experimentalist, his mathematical ability 
did not extend so far as trigonometry or any but the simplest algebra. 
However, his experimental work was consolidated by the able James Clerk 
Maxwell <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell>, who 
developed his equations which lie at the base of all modern theories of 
electromagnetic phenomena. Faraday, nevertheless, was able to convey his 
ideas in clear and simple language."

Maybe this explains why Pynchon writes (98.26-27) "[...] just to *see* 
in some way --directly, without equations, the way Faraday had, 
according to folklore anyway."

Michel.

Monte :
> Faraday seems to have been, from everything I've read, one of the *sweetest*
> people ever to achieve fame. A brief bio:
> http://www.rigb.org/rimain/heritage/faradaypage.jsp
>
> He was a lay preacher and elder of the Glasites or Sandemanians, an offshoot
> of Scottish Presbyterianism. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasite


	

	
		
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