Book ID: CBB000035235

Oliver Heaviside, sage in solitude: The life, work, and times of an electrical genius of the Victorian age (1988)

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Nahin, Paul J. (Author)


IEEE Press


Publication Date: 1988
Physical Details: xxiii + 320 pp.; illus.; bibl.; index

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Review Buchwald, J. (1991) Review of "Oliver Heaviside, sage in solitude: The life, work, and times of an electrical genius of the Victorian age". Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology (pp. 369-70). unapi

Review Rosenberg, R. (1989) Review of "Oliver Heaviside, sage in solitude: The life, work, and times of an electrical genius of the Victorian age". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 322-24). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Gossick, B. R.
Hunt, Bruce J.
Mahon, Basil
Yavetz, Ido
Baber, Robert L.
Bolotovsky, Boris M.
Journals
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Bollettino di Storia delle Scienze Matematiche
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
DVT, Dějiny věd a techniky
European Review
Publishers
Birkhäuser
C.A.M. Publishing
Institution of Engineering and Technology
Prometheus Books
Concepts
Calculus
Physics
Biographies
Electrical engineering
Electricity; magnetism
Probability and statistics
People
Heaviside, Oliver
Canard, Nicolas-François
Duvillard de Durand, Emmanuel-Étienne
Fitzgerald, George Francis
Gibbs, Josiah Willard
Griffiths, John Willis
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century
20th century, early
Places
British Isles
Great Britain
France
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