potential theory

The topic potential theory is discussed in the following articles:


  • TITLE: gravity (physics)
    SECTION: Potential theory
work of


  • TITLE: Carl Friedrich Gauss (German mathematician)
    ...electric telegraph, but a certain parochialism prevented him from pursuing the invention energetically. Instead, he drew important mathematical consequences from this work for what is today called potential theory, an important branch of mathematical physics arising in the study of electromagnetism and gravitation.


  • TITLE: mathematics
    SECTION: Riemann