Oliver Heaviside: Sage in Solitude : The Life Work and Times of an Electrical Genius of the Victorian Age

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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 Maxwells 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.