Oliver Heaviside
Institution of Engineering and Technology (Verlag)
978-0-86341-965-2 (ISBN)
Oliver Heaviside (1850-1925) was one of the great pioneers of electrical science. His ideas led to huge advances in communications and now form much of the bedrock of electrical engineering - every textbook and every college course bears his stamp.
Despite having little formal education he created the mathematical tools that were to prove essential to the proper understanding and use of electricity. At first his ideas were thought to be outrageous and he had to battle long and hard against ignorance, prejudice and vested interests to get them accepted. Yet they are now so much a part of everyday electrical science that they are simply taken for granted and our great debt to him is rarely acknowledged.
Caring nothing for social or mathematical conventions, he lived a fiercely independent life, much of the time close to poverty. His writings reveal a personality like no other and are laced with wickedly irreverent humour; he is by far the funniest author of scientific papers.
Basil Mahon combines a compelling account of Heaviside's life with a powerful insight into his scientific thinking and the reasons for its enduring influence.
A former officer in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, Basil Mahon is a retired Government Statistician who ran the 1991 census in England and Wales and has had a lifelong passion for the physical sciences. Oliver Heaviside follows up his acclaimed book The Man Who Changed Everything, a biography of Heaviside's own hero James Clerk Maxwell.
Chapter 1: Do try to be like other people: London 1850-68
Chapter 2: Seventy words a minute: Fredericia 1868-70
Chapter 3: Waiting for Caroline: Newcastle 1870-74
Chapter 4: Old Teufelsdrockh: London 1874-82
Chapter 5: Good old Maxwell!: London 1882-86
Chapter 6: Making waves: London, Liverpool, Dublin and Karlsruhe 1882-88
Chapter 7: Into battle: London 1886-88
Chapter 8: Self-induction's in the air: Bath and London 1888-89
Chapter 9: Uncle Olly: Paignton 1889-97
Chapter 10: Country life: Newton Abbot 1897-1908
Chapter 11: A Torquay marriage: Torquay 1908-24
Chapter 12: Last days: Torquay 1924-25
Heaviside's legacy
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 24.4.2009 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | History and Management of Technology |
| Verlagsort | Stevenage |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte |
| ISBN-10 | 0-86341-965-8 / 0863419658 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-86341-965-2 / 9780863419652 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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