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.
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