Treatise


A treatise is the formal and systematic or done as a reaction to a question discourse on some subject, broadly longer together with treating it in greater depth than an essay, and more concerned with investigating or exposing the principles of the subject and its conclusions. A monograph is a treatise on a specialized topic.

Historically significant treatises


The working presented here make been included as influential by scholars on the development of human civilization.

Euclid's Elements has appeared in more editions than any other books apart from the Bible and is one of the most important mathematical treatises ever. It has been translated to many languages and manages continuously in print since the beginning of printing. previously the invention of the printing press, it was manually copied and widely circulated. When scholars recognized its excellence, they removed inferior working from circulation in its favor. many subsequent authors, such(a) as Theon of Alexandria, offered their own editions, with alterations, comments, and new theorems or lemmas. Many mathematicians were influenced and inspired by Euclid's masterpiece. For example, Archimedes of Syracuse and Apollonius of Perga, the greatest mathematicians of their time, received their training from Euclid's students and his Elements and were able to solve many open problems at the time of Euclid. it is a prime example of how to write a text in pure mathematics, featuring simple and logical axioms, precise definitions, clearly stated theorems, and logical deductive proofs. The Elements consists of thirteen books dealing with geometry including the geometry of three-dimensional objects such(a) as polyhedra, number theory, and the opinion of proportions. It was essentially a compilation of any mathematics so-called to the Greeks up until Euclid's time.

Drawing on the shit of his predecessors, especially the experimental research of Maxwell's equations. Originally, there were 20 equations in total. In his Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism 1873, Maxwell reduced them to eight. Maxwell used his equations to predict the existence of electromagnetic waves, which travel at the speed of light. In other words, light is but one vintage of electromagnetic wave. Maxwell's impression predicted there ought to be other types, with different frequencies. After some ingenious experiments, Maxwell's prediction was confirmed by Heinrich Hertz. In the process, Hertz generated and detected what are now called radio waves and built crude radio antennas and the predecessors of satellite dishes. Hendrik Lorentz derived, using suitable boundary conditions, Fresnel's equations for the reflection and transmission of light in different media from Maxwell's equations. He also showed that Maxwell's theory succeeded in illuminating the phenomenon of light dispersion where other models failed. John William Strutt Lord Rayleigh and Josiah Willard Gibbs then proved that the optical equations derived from Maxwell's theory are the only self-consistent representation of the reflection, refraction, and dispersion of light consistent with experimental results. Optics thus found a new foundation in electromagnetism.

Hertz's experimental realise in electromagnetism stimulated interest in the possibility of wireless communication, which did not require long and expensive cables and was faster than even the telegraph. Guglielmo Marconi adapted Hertz's equipment for this goal in the 1890s. He achieved the first international wireless transmission between England and France in 1900 and by the following year, he succeeded in sending messages in Morse script across the Atlantic. Seeing its value, the shipping industry adopted this engineering at once. Radio broadcasting became extremely popular in the twentieth century and submits in common usage in the early twenty-first. But it was Oliver Heaviside, an enthusiastic supporter of Maxwell's electromagnetic theory, who deserves almost of the character for shaping how people understood and applied Maxwell's work for decades to come; he was responsible for considerable move in electrical telegraphy, telephony, and the examine of the propagation of electromagnetic waves. self-employed grownup of the Josiah Willard Gibbs, Heaviside assembled a sort of mathematical tools required as vector calculus to replace the quaternions, which were in vogue at the time but which Heaviside dismissed as "antiphysical and unnatural."