Article ID: CBB001553255

Oliver Heaviside: A First-Rate Oddity (2012)

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When physicists today write down Maxwell's equations in their standard vector form or simply set up a problem using vector analysis, they are drawing, usually without realizing it, on the work of Oliver Heaviside. When they analyze how electromagnetic waves move along a wire or across space, or when they use such words as “impedance” or “inductance,” they are following in Heaviside's footsteps. And when at the climax of the musical Cats, chorus members sing about how Grizabella is about to rise “Up, up, up past the Russell Hotel/ Up, up, up, up to the Heaviside Layer,” they are alluding to Heaviside's idea that there must be a conducting layer in the upper atmosphere---though few in the audience probably catch the reference.

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Authors & Contributors
Gooday, Graeme J. N.
Hunt, Bruce J.
Mahon, Basil
Yavetz, Ido
Arapostathis, Stathis
Baber, Robert L.
Journals
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Almagest
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
DVT, Dějiny věd a techniky
European Review
Publishers
Columbia University
Ashgate
Birkhäuser
F. Schöningh
Institution of Engineering and Technology
Prometheus Books
Concepts
Electrical engineering
Physics
Electricity; magnetism
Technology
Biographies
Calculus
People
Heaviside, Oliver
Fitzgerald, George Francis
Gibbs, Josiah Willard
Griffiths, John Willis
Jenkin, Fleeming
Lodge, Oliver
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
20th century, late
Places
Great Britain
British Isles
Germany
Milan (Italy)
Institutions
Stanford University
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
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