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In June 1888, Oliver Heaviside received by mail an officially unpublished pamphlet, which was written and printed by the American author Willard J. Gibbs around 1881–1884.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
Hunt, Bruce J.
Enrico Rogora
Petr A. Druzhinin
Naramore, Sarah E.
Dais, Photis
Yeang, Chen-Pang
Concepts
Physics
Calculus
Mathematics
Controversies and disputes
Annotations and marginalia
Electrical engineering
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
Enlightenment
21st century
20th century
Places
Great Britain
United States
France
Europe
British Isles
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