Paul Lorrain is the main author of three books: Electromagnetic Fields and Waves, third edition 1988, Electromagnetism, Principles and Applications, second edition, 1990, and Fundamentals of Electromagnetic Phenomena, first edition 2000, all published by Freeman, New York. He is also the main author of 22 papers published in the last 22 years in major physics, astrophysics, and plasma physics journals. He has worked in universities and research institutes in several countries. He is presently Visiting Professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
Francois Lorrain is a co-author of the first and third of the above three books. He has also published a book, Reseaux sociaux et classifications sociales ; essai sur l'algebre et la geometrie des structures sociales, Hermann, Paris, 1975. In relation to Magneto-Fluid-Dynamics, he has recently published an article entitled Estimating the order of magnitude of derivatives in physics by means of characteristic lengths and times in the American Journal of Physics, 72 (5), May 2004, pp. 683-690. Presently he teaches in the Departement de mathematiques et d'informatique, College Jean-de-Brebeuf, Montreal (QC), Canada.
