Oliver Heaviside
Title | Oliver Heaviside PDF eBook |
Author | Paul J. Nahin |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Pages | 362 |
Release | 2002-11-13 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780801869099 |
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.
Electromagnetic Theory
Title | Electromagnetic Theory PDF eBook |
Author | Oliver Heaviside |
Publisher | |
Pages | 496 |
Release | 1893 |
Genre | Earth |
ISBN |
The Forgotten Genius of Oliver Heaviside
Title | The Forgotten Genius of Oliver Heaviside PDF eBook |
Author | Basil Mahon |
Publisher | Prometheus Books |
Pages | 298 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1633883310 |
"This biography of Oliver Heaviside profiles the life of an underappreciated genius and describes his many contributions to electrical science, which proved to be essential to the future of mass communications"--
Electrical Papers
Title | Electrical Papers PDF eBook |
Author | Oliver Heaviside |
Publisher | |
Pages | 592 |
Release | 1892 |
Genre | Earth (Planet) |
ISBN |
The Maxwellians
Title | The Maxwellians PDF eBook |
Author | Bruce J. Hunt |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780801482342 |
James Clerk Maxwell published the Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism in 1873. At his death, six years later, his theory of the electromagnetic field was neither well understood nor widely accepted. By the mid-1890s, however, it was regarded as one of the most fundamental and fruitful of all physical theories. Bruce J. Hunt examines the joint work of a group of young British physicists--G. F. FitzGerald, Oliver Heaviside, and Oliver Lodge--along with a key German contributor, Heinrich Hertz. It was these "Maxwellians" who transformed the fertile but half-finished ideas presented in the Treatise into the concise and powerful system now known as "Maxwell's theory."
Electromagnetic Waves
Title | Electromagnetic Waves PDF eBook |
Author | Oliver Heaviside |
Publisher | |
Pages | 152 |
Release | 1889 |
Genre | Electric waves |
ISBN |
The Works of Oliver Heaviside
Title | The Works of Oliver Heaviside PDF eBook |
Author | Oliver Heaviside |
Publisher | CreateSpace |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 2015-06-15 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781514357378 |
The Works of Oliver Heaviside is a classic collection of works by the famous physicist.