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Englishman OLIVER HEAVISIDE (1850-1925) left school at 16 to teach
himself electrical engineering, eventually becoming a renowned
mathematician and one of the world's premiere authorities on
electromagnetic theory and its applications for communication,
including the telegraph and telephone. Here in three volumes are
his collected writings on electromagnetic theory-Volume I was first
published in 1893. This is a catalog of the bulk of his
postulations, theorems, proofs, and common problems (and solutions)
in electromagnetism, many of which had been published in article
form. Part scientific history-including references to some
contemporary criticisms, long since shown to be poorly based, of
Heaviside's scholarship-and part guide to understanding a complex
applied science, this work shows both the genius and the
eccentricity of a man whose work includes precursory theories to
Einstein, and revolutionary principles that today are the commonly
assumed truths in the field of electrical engineering.
Englishman OLIVER HEAVISIDE (1850-1925) left school at 16 to teach
himself electrical engineering, eventually becoming a renowned
mathematician and one of the world's premiere authorities on
electromagnetic theory and its applications for communication,
including the telegraph and telephone. Here in three volumes are
his collected writings on electromagnetic theory-Volume III was
first published in 1912. This is a catalog of the bulk of his
postulations, theorems, proofs, and common problems (and solutions)
in electromagnetism, many of which had been published in article
form. Part scientific history-including references to some
contemporary criticisms, long since shown to be poorly based, of
Heaviside's scholarship-and part guide to understanding a complex
applied science, this work shows both the genius and the
eccentricity of a man whose work includes precursory theories to
Einstein, and revolutionary principles that today are the commonly
assumed truths in the field of electrical engineering.
Englishman OLIVER HEAVISIDE (1850-1925) left school at 16 to teach
himself electrical engineering, eventually becoming a renowned
mathematician and one of the world's premiere authorities on
electromagnetic theory and its applications for communication,
including the telegraph and telephone. Here in three volumes are
his collected writings on electromagnetic theory-Volume II was
first published in 1899. This is a catalog of the bulk of his
postulations, theorems, proofs, and common problems (and solutions)
in electromagnetism, many of which had been published in article
form. Part scientific history-including references to some
contemporary criticisms, long since shown to be poorly based, of
Heaviside's scholarship-and part guide to understanding a complex
applied science, this work shows both the genius and the
eccentricity of a man whose work includes precursory theories to
Einstein, and revolutionary principles that today are the commonly
assumed truths in the field of electrical engineering.
Englishman OLIVER HEAVISIDE (1850-1925) left school at 16 to teach
himself electrical engineering, eventually becoming a renowned
mathematician and one of the world's premiere authorities on
electromagnetic theory and its applications for communication,
including the telegraph and telephone. Here in three volumes are
his collected writings on electromagnetic theory-Volume I was first
published in 1893. This is a catalog of the bulk of his
postulations, theorems, proofs, and common problems (and solutions)
in electromagnetism, many of which had been published in article
form. Part scientific history-including references to some
contemporary criticisms, long since shown to be poorly based, of
Heaviside's scholarship-and part guide to understanding a complex
applied science, this work shows both the genius and the
eccentricity of a man whose work includes precursory theories to
Einstein, and revolutionary principles that today are the commonly
assumed truths in the field of electrical engineering.
Englishman OLIVER HEAVISIDE (1850-1925) left school at 16 to teach
himself electrical engineering, eventually becoming a renowned
mathematician and one of the world's premiere authorities on
electromagnetic theory and its applications for communication,
including the telegraph and telephone. Here in three volumes are
his collected writings on electromagnetic theory-Volume III was
first published in 1912. This is a catalog of the bulk of his
postulations, theorems, proofs, and common problems (and solutions)
in electromagnetism, many of which had been published in article
form. Part scientific history-including references to some
contemporary criticisms, long since shown to be poorly based, of
Heaviside's scholarship-and part guide to understanding a complex
applied science, this work shows both the genius and the
eccentricity of a man whose work includes precursory theories to
Einstein, and revolutionary principles that today are the commonly
assumed truths in the field of electrical engineering.
Englishman OLIVER HEAVISIDE (1850-1925) left school at 16 to teach
himself electrical engineering, eventually becoming a renowned
mathematician and one of the world's premiere authorities on
electromagnetic theory and its applications for communication,
including the telegraph and telephone. Here in three volumes are
his collected writings on electromagnetic theory-Volume II was
first published in 1899. This is a catalog of the bulk of his
postulations, theorems, proofs, and common problems (and solutions)
in electromagnetism, many of which had been published in article
form. Part scientific history-including references to some
contemporary criticisms, long since shown to be poorly based, of
Heaviside's scholarship-and part guide to understanding a complex
applied science, this work shows both the genius and the
eccentricity of a man whose work includes precursory theories to
Einstein, and revolutionary principles that today are the commonly
assumed truths in the field of electrical engineering.
Oliver Heaviside (1850-1925), the self-taught physicist and
electrical engineer, began his career as an operator on the newly
laid Anglo-Danish telegraph cable in 1868. The most advanced
electrical technology of the time, the cable system inspired
several of his early mathematical papers. This monograph, first
published as a paper in the Philosophical Magazine in 1888, then as
a book in 1889, draws on his established work on telegraphic
propagation and self-inductance, and on Maxwell's field theory. In
a fascinating insight into the contemporary scientific community,
he complains that these subjects are still often misunderstood, and
explains his formulae afresh from several angles. Also covered -
and frequently questioned - are contemporary theories of
permittivity, the speed of electromagnetic waves, and the
dielectric properties of conductors. Heaviside's Electrical Papers
(2 volumes, 1892) and his Electromagnetic Theory (3 volumes,
1893-1912) have also been reissued in this series.
Oliver Heaviside FRS (1850-1925) was a scientific maverick and a
gifted self-taught electrical engineer, physicist and
mathematician. He patented the co-axial cable, pioneered the use of
complex numbers for circuit analysis, and reworked Maxwell's field
equations into the more concise format we use today. In 1891 the
Royal Society made him a Fellow for his mathematical descriptions
of electromagnetic phenomena. Along with Arthur Kennelly, he also
predicted the existence of the ionosphere. Often dismissed by his
contemporaries, his work achieved wider recognition when he
received the inaugural Faraday Medal in 1922. Published in 1912,
this is the last of three volumes summarising Heaviside's enormous
contribution to electromagnetic theory. It includes a review of his
work on waves from moving sources, and an appendix on vector
analysis that compares its merits to quaternions.
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