Oliver Heaviside: The Life, Work, and Times of an Electrical Genius of the Victorian Age
by Paul J. Nahin
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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 book This, then, was Oliver Heaviside, a pioneer of modern show more 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 about this remarkable man. show lessTags
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Paul J. Nahin is the author of many popular math books, including How to Fall Slower Than Gravity and An Imaginary Tale (both Princeton). He is professor emeritus of electrical engineering at the University of New Hampshire.
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- 621.3 — Applied science & technology Engineering Applied physics Electronics & Computers
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- TK140 .H43 .N34 — Technology Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear
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