"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." -- from the book
This, then, was Oliver Heaviside, a pioneer of modern electrical
theory. Born into a low social class of Victorian England and dying
in poverty as a recluse, Heaviside (in between) 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. This acclaimed biography is the only one devoted to
Oliver Heaviside. Now available in paperback with a new preface by
the author, it will appeal to historians of technology and science,
as well as to scientists and engineers who wish to learn more about
this remarkable man.
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