Oliver Heaviside The Life, Work, and Times of an Electrical Genius of the Victorian Age

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 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. 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.

ISBN:	9780801869099
Publisher:	Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint:	Johns Hopkins University Press
Published date:	13 Nov 2002
DEWEY:	621.3092
DEWEY edition:	21
Language:	English
Number of pages:	318
Weight:	668g
Height:	254mm
Width:	179mm
Spine width:	19mm

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