Article ID: CBB915567028

Back to the roots of vector and tensor calculus: Heaviside versus Gibbs (2021)

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In June 1888, Oliver Heaviside received by mail an officially unpublished pamphlet, which was written and printed by the American author Willard J. Gibbs around 1881–1884. This original document is preserved in the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC. Heaviside studied Gibbs’s work very carefully and wrote some annotations in the margins of the booklet. He was a strong defender of Gibbs’s work on vector analysis against quaternionists, even if he criticised Gibbs’s notation system. The aim of our paper is to analyse Heaviside’s annotations and to investigate the role played by the American physicist in the development of Heaviside’s work.

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Authors & Contributors
Bao, Fangxun
Bellhouse, David R.
Charpentier, Éric
Dry, Sarah
Ghys, Étienne
Guicciardini, Niccolò
Journals
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
Bollettino di Storia delle Scienze Matematiche
British Society for the History of Mathematics Bulletin
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
Publishers
American Mathematical Society
Institution of Engineering and Technology
Oxford University Press
Concepts
Calculus
Physics
Controversies and disputes
Mathematics
Correspondence and corresponding
Philosophy of science
People
Heaviside, Oliver
Newton, Isaac
Gibbs, Josiah Willard
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von
Boltzmann, Ludwig
Collins, John
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century, early
17th century
20th century
21st century
Places
Great Britain
France
Europe
United States
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