https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1509.00501/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22812021urn:hackerpapers:mention:1509.00501:22812021Wed, 08 Apr 2020 11:45:46 GMT<p>Maxwell&#x27;s equations are an artifact of the Mathematical Formulation and they can be written in a perhaps easer way. If one describes them in Geometrc Algebra terms it is just one equation [0] and one can understand it in a natural way. During the nineteenth century and the discussions on different formal ways to describe vector fields Hamilton&#x27;s quartenion system prevailed. Maxwell had reservations and presented his treatise of electricity and electromagnetism as &quot;the introduction of the ideas, as distinguished from the operations and methods of Quaternions&quot; [1], thus the formulation we know.…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1509.00501/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>physics.hist-ph