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He (co)authored great books. But also indulged into dubious influence engineering coauthoring thousand(s) of articles about most of which, according to some of physics colleagues who I spoke to (and who discussed with him in person), he had no scientific clue. He created an institute in Frankfurt where, among the others, some prominent crackpots like El Naschie had affiliation. Greiner largely praised El Naschie, even contributed article(s) to volume in honour of El Naschie together with some other constant supporters (and partial crackpots) like Roessler, Crnjac and Iovane (e.g. in https://www.gbv.de/dms/goettingen/502968192.pdf or https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/chaos-solitons-and-fractals/vol/25/issue/4) etc. All together a sad story when a talented scientific writer who was starting as sound theoretical physicist got too greedy for influence and publication record.
He (co)authored great books.
Anecdote: The very first time I taught a University class was as a PhD student substituting one week for a professor who went to attend a conference during semester. The course was on electromagnetism, following Greiner’s book, so I conscientiously looked through the relevant sections. Eventually I came to the conclusion that the subsequent presentations of the Meissner effect and then of the Aharonov-Bohm effect were using the exact same argument, but still arriving at opposite conclusions.
Right now I am in similar disappointment mode: I was trying to dig out good textbook accounts on EM-fields in dielectric media, but come back disappointed from each book I open. Even Jackson and Landau & Lifshitz don’t seem to write the clear punchlines that I was hoping to be able to cite
All together a sad story
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How about
The second article also cites the book F. N. H. Robinson, Macroscopic electromagnetism, 1973 as “standard”. I have never seen it before.
Thanks, these are good references. I have added them at dielectric medium and at Maxwell’s equation
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