Editing Hysteresis (section)

==Etymology and history==

The term "hysteresis" is derived from {{lang|grc|[[wikt:ὑστέρησις#Ancient Greek|ὑστέρησις]]}}, an [[Ancient Greek]] word meaning "deficiency" or "lagging behind". It was coined in 1881 by [[James Alfred Ewing|Sir James Alfred Ewing]] to describe the behaviour of magnetic materials.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspl.1881.0067|doi = 10.1098/rspl.1881.0067|title = VII. On the production of transient electric currents in iron and steel conductors by twisting them when magnetised or by magnetising them when twisted|journal = Proceedings of the Royal Society of London|year = 1882|volume = 33|issue = 216–219|pages = 21–23|s2cid = 110895565}}</ref>

Some early work on describing hysteresis in mechanical systems was performed by [[James Clerk Maxwell]]. Subsequently, hysteretic models have received significant attention in the works of [[Ferenc Preisach]] ([[Preisach model of hysteresis]]), [[Louis Néel]] and [[Douglas Hugh Everett]] in connection with magnetism and absorption. A more formal mathematical theory of systems with hysteresis was developed in the 1970s by a group of Russian mathematicians led by [[Mark Krasnosel'skii]].