Oliver Heaviside
The Life, Work, and Times of an Electrical Genius of the Victorian Age
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Product details:
- Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
- Date of Publication 13 November 2002
- ISBN 9780801869099
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages336 pages
- Size 256x187x23 mm
- Weight 680 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 49 Halftones, black & white; 13 Line drawings, black & white 0
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Short description:
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 about this remarkable man.
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Acclaimed biography of the pioneer of modern electrical theory featuring a new preface by author.
"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."?Excerpt from the book
This, 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. 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 about this remarkable man.
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.
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