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Leigh Page was born on October 13, 1884 in South Orange, New Jersey, United States. He was the son of Edward Day Page, a prosperous merchant, and Cornelia Lee Page.
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The object of this book is to present a logical development of electromagnetic theory founded upon the principle of relaf tivity. So far as the author is aware, the universal procedure has been to base the electrodynamic equations on the experimental conclusions of Coulomb, A mpdre, andF araday, even books on the principle of relativity going no farther than to show that these equations are covariant for theL orentz-E instein transformation. As the dependence of electromagnetism on the relativity principle is far more intimate than is suggested by this covariance, it has seemed more logical to derive the electrodynamic equations directly from this principle. The analysis necessary for the development of the theory has been much simplified by the use of Gibbs vector notation. While it is difficult for those familiar with the many conveniences of this notation to understand why it has not come into universal use among physicists, the belief that some readers might not be conversant with the symbols employed has led to the presentation in the Introduction of those elements of vector analysis which are made use of farther on in the texjb. Chapter I contains a brief account of the principle of relativity. In the second chapter the retarded equations of the field of a point charge are derived from this principle, and hi Chapter III the fultaneous field of a moving charge is discussed in so .I nthe next chapter the dynamical equation of thf obtained, and inC hapter Vthe general field eon d. Chapter VI takes up the radiation of er -and Chapters VII and VIII contain sov Yectromagnetic equations to material their illustration of the theory as jortance. (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology. For
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Leigh Page was born on October 13, 1884 in South Orange, New Jersey, United States. He was the son of Edward Day Page, a prosperous merchant, and Cornelia Lee Page.
Leigh Page attended the Friends' Seminary in New York City and then entered Yale University's Sheffield Scientific School, intending to become a mechanical engineer. All first-year graduate students in physics at Yale (including such luminaries as the future Nobel prize-winner E. O. Lawrence) took the course based on his Introduction to Theoretical Physics. The course was customarily given at 8 A. M. six days a week, and Page thought nothing of scheduling a midterm examination on the morning of the Harvard game. He graduated with the Bachelor of Philosophy degree with Philosophical Orations (high honors) in 1904, having won five first prizes as a freshman and general honors in his junior and senior years and having served as chairman of the editorial board of the Scientific Monthly. He received the Ph. D. in physics in 1913. Leigh Page returned to Yale in 1905 to take the mechanical engineering course, perhaps on the urging of F. C. Thornton, an English-born rancher who was a graduate of Cambridge University and Page's future father-in-law.
Leigh Page worked a year in the shops of the Southwark Foundry and Machine Company in Philadelphia, but he was drawn to more intellectual pursuits and in 1907 joined the Centenary Collegiate Institute in Hackettstown, New Jersay, to teach mathematics and physics. In 1922 he was appointed the first Willard Gibbs professor of mathematical physics, a post he held until his death. Page also retained his interest in practical affairs. He managed his father's estate, served as director and later (from 1919 to 1927) president of the South Orange and Maplewood Traction Company, and during World War I helped train Signal Corps officers in New Haven. In 1915, as a young instructor, Page wrote for a class biography: "Aim in life: Research in mathematical physics, with especial reference to the establishment of a set of simple fundamental principles, such as the principle of relativity and the principle of conservation, from which all physical science will follow as a logical deduction. " He followed this lofty goal with remarkable consistency and came close to reaching it.
His advanced texts, An Introduction to Electrodynamics from the Standpoint of Electron Theory (1922) and An Introduction to Theoretical Physics (1928), and his intermediate Principles of Electricity (1931, written with his Yale colleague N. I. Adams, Jr. ) remained in use in various forms for decades and helped maintain the world reputation that the Yale physics faculty had established by the work of such distinguished predecessors as the elder Benjamin Silliman, Josiah Willard Gibbs, and Page's mentor Henry Andrews Bumstead. Page's main contribution to physics was the emission theory of electromagnetism. Starting from a postulate regarding the emission of particles from charged bodies, he formulated the basic equations of electromagnetic theory Maxwell's equations (1864), although Page sometimes refrained from calling them so from Einstein's relativity theory of 1905 (again, not always identified as such). That approach is the heart of a later text by Page and Adams, Electrodynamics (1940), remembered as a formidable obstacle by a generation of advanced graduate students. He also advocated the use of the Heaviside-Lorentz system of electromagnetic units, which like the Gaussian system mixes electrostatic and electromagnetic units but divides some and multiplies others, resulting in some simplification. Both systems are currently being replaced by the still more convenient rationalized meter-kilogram-second, or MKS, system.
Leigh Page was a frequent contributor to scientific journals (producing some seventy papers), mainly on classical electrodynamics with occasional forays into relativity and quantum mechanics. In 1936 Page became interested through his son T. H. Page, then studying under E. A. Milne at Oxford in Milne's approach to kinematic relativity. He extended the concepts for instance, to accelerated reference frames to what Page called new relativity.
In his last work he attempted to derive the quantum hypothesis from classical and relativistic physics, never having accepted quantum mechanics as "true" in its own right; the starting point was to adjust the electron charge density and distribution so as to provide complete stability of a spinning charge as a model for the electron. Page died on September 14, 1952 at his summer house in Randolph, New Hampshire, without completing this work. His widow endowed the $1, 000 Leigh Page prize at Yale in 1954, now used for a lecture given annually by a distinguished physicist.
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As junior colleagues and students testified, Leigh Page had a warm and sympathetic personality
Leigh Page married Mary Edith Cholmondeley Thornton in 1910. They had three children.