{"product_id":"oliver-heaviside-9780801869099","title":"Oliver Heaviside","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow 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. 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. Nahin has exhaustively resurveyed archives and contemporary sources and is very much at home in historical discussions of Victorian physics. Isis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents:   Preface to the Johns Hopkins Edition    Preface to the Original Edition    A Note of Mathematics   A Note of References    A Note on Money    Acknowledgements 1 The Origins of Heaviside   ( A Description of mid-19th century Victorian England.)   The Man   The Nature of His Work   The Grim World of Heaviside's Youth   Notes and References 2 The Early Years   (The young Heaviside, his family circumstances, and his education.)   The Beginning   A Lucky Marriage   First (and Last) Job   A Lifetime Decision   Tech Note: Where Is the Fault?   Notes and References 3 The First Theory of the Electric Telegraph   (Historical discussion of Professor William Thomson's 1854 diffusion theory, the starting point of Heaviside's work.)   Thomson and Stokes   The Law of Squares   The Atlantic Cable   The Speed of the Current   Phase Distortion   Tech Note: How Thomson Thought Electricity \"Soaks\" into an Infinitely Long Cable   Notes and References 4 Heaviside's Early Telegraphy Work   (An account of the introduction effects into cable analysis, and the nature of Heaviside's mode of working.)   A Full-Time Student   The Telegraph Papers   The Problem of Signal Rate Assymmetry   A \"Mathematical Monster\"   Arithmatic Drudgery   Tech Note: Why a Cable Is Slower in One Direction than in the Other   Notes and References 5 The Scienticulist   (An introduction to William Henry Preece, Engineer-in-Chief of the British Post Offics and Heaviside's great nemesis.)   Heaviside's Nemesis   Subdividing the Electric Light   The Age of the \"Practical Man\"   A Public Debate   Why Preece Prevailed (for a While)   A Clash of Personalities   Preece's Ability   The Telephone Affair   Heavisides Refuses to Be Shackled   Tech Note: Preece's Analysis of the Electric Light  Notes and References 6 Maxwell's Electricity   (The state of knowledge at Maxwell's death om 1879.)   Introduction   The Men before Maxwell   Action-at-a-Distance   The Luminiferous Ether   Faraday and Lines of Force   William Thomson   Maxwell   The Displacement Current   Post-script: Just What  Is Electricity, Anyway?   Tech Note 1: A Technically Nice, Often Taught, but Historically False \"Explanantion\" of the Displacement Current   Tech Note 2: Action-at-a-Distance, Fields, and Faraday's Electronic State   Notes and References 7 Heaviside's Electrodynamics   (How Heaviside formulated the field equations and what he did with them.)   The Conversion of a Skeptic    The Electrician   The Importance of Mr. Biggs   Getting Off to a Bad Start   Reformulating Maxwell's Equations   A Friend in Germany   More Germans: Foppl, Boltzmann, and Planck   Energy and Its Flux   Moving Charges   A Friend at Cambridge   Faster-than-Light   Dr. Heaviside, F.R.S.   Tech Note 1: The Duplex Equations   Tech Note 2: The Localization of Electromagnetic Field Energy   Tech Note 3: Heaviside's Derivation of hte Electromagnetic Energy Flow Vector in Space   Tech Note 4: Poynting;s Physics (and Oliver's Objection)   Notes and References 8 The Battle With Preece   (The story of the \" KR-Law\" and Preece's efforts to suppress Heaviside's influence.)   High-Tech Hardware, Low-Tech Theory   Early Mathematical Analysis   The Peculiar Experiments of David Hughes   Preece's \" KR-Law\" and Heaviside's Attack   Oliver Lodge's Oscillating Leyden Jar   \"Experience\" versus \"Theory\"   Heaviside's Vindication   A Change of Scene-and Fame   Back in Print-in Style!   His Friends Try to Help   More Battles  Tech Note1: The Skin Effect   Tech Note 2: The \" KR-Law\"   Tech Note 3: Preece and Lodge on Lightning   Tech Note 4: Heaviside and S. P. Thompson on the Distortionless Circuit   Notes and References 9 The Great Quarterionic War   (The development of vectors by Heaviside and by Gibbs, and the debate with Tait.)   More Debates   Peter Tait, the Warrior of Victorian Science   William Hamilton and Quarterions   Before 1890-The Calm Before the Storm   The Vector Analysis of Josiah Willard Gibbs   Tait Throws Down the Gauntlet   The Battle   The Aftermath   Off to War-Again   Tech Note 1: Numbers and Vecotrs-Real, Complex and Hypercomplex   Tech Note 2: Hamilton's Insight at the Brougham Bridge   Tech Note 3: Quarterions Are Complex!   Notes and References Strange Mathematics   (Operational calculus.)   \"Rigorous Mathematics In Narrow, Physical Mathematics Bold and Broad\"   The Operator Concept   Heaviside's Operators   The Expansion Theorem   The Royal Society Affair   The Aftermath of the Rejection   A New Friend at Cambridge   Tech Note 1: Heaviside's Resistance Operators   Tech Note 2: The Problem with the  p and 1\/ p Operators   Tech Note 3: The Meaning of Heaviside's Fractional Operator, and Impulses   Tech Note 4: Heaviside and Divergent Series   Notes and References 11 The Age-of-the-Earth Controversy   (The debate between Perry and Kelvin, and Heaviside's support of Perry via his operational methods.)   Historical Origin of the Debate   The Problem of Fossils   Kelvin's Theory   perry's Rebuttal of Kelvin's Theory   Perry's Theory of Discontinuous Diffusivity   Kelvin's Defense and Perry's Reply   The End of the Debate   An Assessment of the Debate   A Final Word   Tech Note 1: Heaviside's Operator Solution of Kelvin's Original One-Dimensional Problem   Tech Note 2: Heaviside's Operator Solution of Perry's Problem of Discontinuous Diffusivity   Notes and References 12 The Final Years of the Hermit   (The Personal life of Heaviside after 1900, when essentially all his scientific work was done.)   A \"Gentleman\" with a Pension   Life in the Country   Another Change at  The Electrician   The Passing of the Century-and of a Friend and a Foe   The Catches up t Heaviside-and Leaves Him Behind   Oliver Puts His Name on the Atmosphere   Increasing Trouble with Life   Life at Homefield   Death Takes and Past-and the Present   The End of the Hermit   A Last Look   Notes and References 13 Epilogue   (An evaluation of Heaviside's impact since his death.)   The Legend Grows   Heaviside Profiled in  TimeMagazine!   Formulas Under the Floor   Last Words   Notes and References  Index  Credits","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405197254999,"sku":"9780801869099","price":31.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780801869099.jpg?v=1730489063","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/oliver-heaviside-9780801869099","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}