The Thidé Book of EMT

An entire book on electromagnetic theory, free to download! That was my reaction when I found exactly that. It comes from a physicist who works at Uppsala University. A physicist named Bo Thidé, and the book, of course, is called "Electromagnetic Field Theory".

Electromagnetic Field Theory by Bo Thidé

I found this book out of necessity - I needed to look-up some EMT. It's the course book for a Classical Electrodynamics course at Uppsala University, so at least it has that reliability. It has also been recommended by Gerard t'Hooft, on the page that landed here.  To say a piece about the content, it's nice and concise, with a large mathematical formula section at the end. It's level is late-undergraduate and postgraduate - so Bones and Jaw. There's also an exercise book that can be found on the same website. It used to be available on Amazon, but it came with a cover designed by Albert Hofmann (well it looks like it was).

A garish existence on Amazon.

Before I found this book I didn't know about the Swedish city, Uppsala. Turns out it's the fourth largest city in Sweden, has some pretty impressive buildings and is home to the oldest Swedish university... yep, Uppsala University. This particular university once had it's doorways darkened by Anders Celsius, inventor of the Celsius scale. It's clear that Uppsala is a great city for it's own reasons, but for me, Bo Thidé has put Uppsala on the map.

I like this book!
Tack, Bo Thidé.

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Download page for Electromagnetic Field Theory by Bo Thidé:
http://www.plasma.uu.se/CED/Book/index.html#download