Oliver Heaviside: The Life, Work, and Times of an Electrical Genius of the Victorian Age
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| Title | : | Oliver Heaviside: The Life, Work, and Times of an Electrical Genius of the Victorian Age |
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| Rating | : | 4.84 (712 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0801869099 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 360 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2002-10-09 |
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"He was a man who often was incapable of conducting himself properly in the most elementary social interactions. His only continuing contacts with women were limited to his mother, nieces, and housekeepers. He was a man who knew the power of money and desired it, but refused to work for it, preferring to live off the sweat of his family and long-suffering friends, whom he often insulted even as they paid his bills."from the bookThis, then, was Oliver Heaviside, a pioneer of modern electrical theory. Born into a low social class of Victorian England, Heaviside made advances in mathematics by introducing the operational calculus; in physics, where he formulated the modern-day expressions of Maxwell's Laws of electromagnetism; and in electrical engineering, through his duplex equations. Now available in paperback with a new preface by the author, this acclaimed biography will appeal to historians of technology and science, as well as to scientists and engineers who wish to learn more abou
Editorial : How was it that a man who had no formal education after the age of sixteen could apply operational calculus to technological problems in a way that other eminent mathematical physicists had not? Why was a charged layer of the ionosphere named after him? The best way to gain an insight into the life and work of this eccentric genius will be to delve into this delightful book.
(International Journal of Electrical Engineering Educators)
A good book by a careful, historically minded engineer A lively, informative narrative of Heaviside's life and work. Nahin has exhaustively resurveyed archives and contemporary sources and is very much at home in historical discussions of Victorian physics.
(Isis)
geopolitical and financial interests. The book is not just a read it quickly and you have what he has to say. Electro-Magnetic Theory (EMT) and it is very difficult reading, since unlike Feynman, Heaviside does not make his ideas "easy" to understand. II page 21-1 and footnote page 21-5.) By accident, I saw this same equation derived in a later book: Classical Electromagnetic Radiation, by Heald and Marion. Interesting book.. They call it the Feynman equation but claim that it was first developed by, you guessed it, Heaviside in 1902, some 50 years earlier!
All of the "coincidences" prompted me to find out more about Oliver Heaviside, and professor's Nahin's book is the answer. However, appreciating Heaviside requires a fairly in-depth understanding of E&M (Electricity and Magnetism) theory. The reproductions are reasonably accurate. Amazing!
Excellent book, nice quality, nice photographs,
nice papper, very interesting
More that i was expecting
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