An edition of Oliver Heaviside: The Life, Work, and Times of an Electrical Genius of the Victorian Age
(1987)
Oliver Heaviside, sage in solitude
the life, work, and times of an electrical genius of the Victorian age
by Paul J. Nahin
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Biography of Oliver Heaviside, who was a self-taught English electrical engineer, mathematician, and physicist who adapted complex numbers to the study of electrical circuits, and invented mathematical techniques to the solution of differential equations.
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Oliver Heaviside: The Life, Work, and Times of an Electrical Genius of the Victorian Age
October 9, 2002, The Johns Hopkins University Press
Paperback
in English
- Johns Hopkins Paperback Ed edition
0801869099 9780801869099
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Oliver Heaviside: Sage in Solitude : The Life, Work, and Times of an Electrical Genius of the Victorian Age
February 1988, Ieee
Hardcover
in English
0879422386 9780879422387
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Oliver Heaviside, sage in solitude: the life, work, and times of an electrical genius of the Victorian age
1987, IEEE Press
in English
0879422386 9780879422387
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Includes bibliographies and index.
"Published under the sponsorship of the IEEE History Committee."
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"England takes great pride and pleasure in her eccentrics; as the Spanish-born philosopher and poet George Santayana wrote in his 1922 The British Character, "England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies.""
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