Oliver Heaviside: The Life, Work, and Times of an Electrical Genius of the Victorian Age
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| Rating | : | 4.59 (894 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0801869099 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 360 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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Paul J. Nahin is a professor of electrical engineering at the University of New Hampshire. He is the author of Time Machines, An Imaginary Tale and The Science of Radio.
"A very good biography, but would Josephs' be better?" according to weaponeer. The back cover blurb of this book tells a lie: "This acclaimed biography is the only one devoted to Oliver Heaviside." Nahin himself mentions two others, by Bolotovsky and by Searle, and two more unpublished ones, by Gossick, and most significantly, by Henry J. Josephs, of whom more later.Nahin is a professor of electrical engineering at the University of New Hampshire, and expresses opinions as facts with typical academic self-assurance. Tesla, f. Outstanding biography for the scientifically minded I enthusiastically recommend this book to anyone who appreciates the sung and unsung heroes of science and engineering. However, appreciating Heaviside requires a fairly in-depth understanding of E&M (Electricity and Magnetism) theory. That's just the way it is. The more you delve into the subject, the greater will be your respect and amazement for the stupendous theoretical contributions this strange hermit accomplished.From this book, as far as . Mr. R. A. Peek said An outstanding biography of an outstanding scientist. Oliver Heaviside is practically unknown today, unless you still call the ionosphere the Heaviside Layer, but far less worthy scientists have been awarded Nobel prizes. He has found an excellent biographer in Paul Nahin, who is completely at home with his material. It's a delight to see footnotes and technical notes that seriously enhance the value of the book. Thoroughly recommended to anyone with an interest in a man who helped to establish our e
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. 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. His only continuing contacts with women were limited to his mother, nieces, and housekeepers. Now available in paperback with a new preface by the author, this acclaimed biogra
(Isis) . Nahin has exhaustively resurveyed archives and contemporary sources and is very much at home in historical discussions of Victorian physics. (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. 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