They are named after the Scottish physicist and mathematician James Clerk Maxwell , who published an early form of those equations between 1861 and 1862 .
Maxwell 's equations describe how electric and magnetic fields are generated and altered by each other and by charges and currents .
each other are named after the Scottish physicist and mathematician James Clerk Maxwell , who published an early form of those equations between 1861 and 1862 .
Maxwell 's equations describe how electric and magnetic fields are generated and altered by each other and by charges and currents .