Examples of the Zeroth Theorem of the History of Physics Export

@misc{citeulike:3036467, abstract = {The zeroth theorem of the history of science (enunciated by E. P. Fischer) and widely known in the mathematics community as Arnol'd's Principle (decreed by M. V. Berry), states that a discovery (rule, regularity, insight) named after someone (often) did not originate with that person. I present five examples from physics: the Lorentz condition defining the Lorentz gauge of the electromagnetic potentials; the Dirac delta function (x); the Schumann resonances of the earth-ionosphere cavity; the Weizsacker-Williams method of virtual quanta; the BMT equation of spin dynamics. I give illustrated thumbnail sketches of both the true and reputed discoverers and quote from their "discovery" publications.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Jackson, J. D.}, citeulike-article-id = {3036467}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0708.4249}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/0708.4249}, eprint = {0708.4249}, keywords = {history\_of\_physics}, month = {Oct}, posted-at = {2009-06-14 00:09:26}, priority = {0}, title = {Examples of the Zeroth Theorem of the History of Physics}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0708.4249}, year = {2007} }

TY - ELEC ID - citeulike:3036467 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3036467 N2 - The zeroth theorem of the history of science (enunciated by E. P. Fischer) and widely known in the mathematics community as Arnol'd's Principle (decreed by M. V. Berry), states that a discovery (rule, regularity, insight) named after someone (often) did not originate with that person. I present five examples from physics: the Lorentz condition defining the Lorentz gauge of the electromagnetic potentials; the Dirac delta function (x); the Schumann resonances of the earth-ionosphere cavity; the Weizsacker-Williams method of virtual quanta; the BMT equation of spin dynamics. I give illustrated thumbnail sketches of both the true and reputed discoverers and quote from their "discovery" publications. TI - Examples of the Zeroth Theorem of the History of Physics KW - history_of_physics AU - Jackson, JD PY - 2007/Oct/11/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/0708.4249 ER -