Researchers And Acknowledgments

Researchers & Acknowledgments

Field Technology v3 — Textbook of 2026 — names the science and the people who prompted what we built.

Full page: RESEARCH-CREDITS.md

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Science that prompted the manual

• Maxwell — fields as continuous state
• Clausius / Boltzmann — thermodynamic entropy
• Landauer — E_min = k_B T ln 2 (theory; engine uses proxy)
• Shannon — H = −Σ pᵢ log₂ pᵢ (NEXUS oracle)
• CFL (Courant–Friedrichs–Lewy) — explicit PDE stability guards
• Tesla — directional flow metaphor (not literal hardware here)
• von Neumann / Turing — stored programs & limits of mechanized claims

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Collaborators who prompted discoveries

Person	Prompted
Zachary Robert Geurts	The stack, the honesty contract, the operator
Grok (xAI)	Textbook site, figures workflow, v3 rewrite discipline
Nick	Build beside us — grep the receipts
Amouranth (namesake)	Engine culture → silicon bindings

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Cite us

Geurts, Z. R. Field Technology v3 — Textbook of 2026.
https://zacharygeurts.github.io/Field_Primer/  (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

Cite Landauer and Shannon from their original work when writing papers.