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Nobody ever writes Maxell's equations using "components", the title sounds like a straw man argument.

The rest of the text is well written, but hopelessly useless without a comparison with the typical way to write Maxwell's equations using differential forms (which turns out to be essentially identical to geometric algebra).



If I understand correctly, Maxwell wrote Maxwell's equations using components. That's why they took 20 equations.


Sure. My first sentence is missing the word "today".


Maxwell wrote his equations using components. Heavyside create modern vector notation.




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