SOME IMPORTANT NEGLECTED EQUATIONS OF PHYSICS Page No: 5617-5619

Jeremy Dunning-Davies and Richard Lawrence Norman

Keywords: Partial differential equations, forgotten equations in physics. PACS numbers: 02.30.Jr

Abstract: Following massive changes in the direction of thinking in physics towards the beginning of the twentieth century, it is beginning to seem that some articles which should have been seen as providing potentially significant developments were effectively consigned to the archives to be buried for posterity. Others appearing much later in the century appear to have suffered a similar fate by being published in obscure journals. Here four such articles – two in each category – are examined briefly to highlight the dangers of such action



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