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From Obscurity to Enigma: The work of Oliver Heaviside, 1872-1891
 
 
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From Obscurity to Enigma: The work of Oliver Heaviside, 1872-1891 [Hardcover]

Ido Yavetz (Author)

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Oliver Heaviside's electromagnetic investigations - from the publication of his first electrical paper in 1972 to the public recognition awarded to him by Lord Kelvin in 1889 - have consistently attracted attention over the years, and of late have become a major source for the study of the development of field theory after Maxwell. "From Obscurity to Enigma" is the only comprehensive, in-depth analysis of Heaviside's work. It analyses and elucidates his brilliant but often close-to-indecipherable Electrical Papers and traces the evolution of his ideas against the background of growing knowledge in basic electromagnetic theory, telegraphy and telephony during these years. The book will be appreciated by historians of science and technology in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and by physicists and electrical engineers, many of whom are aware of Heaviside's contributions to their respective fields.

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Oliver Heaviside's contributions to electromagnetism, electrical engineering, and applied mathematics have consistently attracted attention. Of late they have become a major source for the study of the development of field theory after Maxwell.  From Obscurity to Enigma: The Work of Oliver Heaviside, 1872-1889 is a systematic, in-depth study of the most creative period in Heaviside's scientific career. During this period he wrote the essays and articles that constitute his two-volume Electrical Papers. Here he presented his novel reformulation of Maxwell's equations, created the elements of vector algebra, produced the first comprehensive theory of transmission lines, suggested the inductive «loading» of telegraph and telephone lines to improve long-distance communications, introduced his innovative version of the operational calculus, and made several important contributions to the electrodynamics of moving bodies. From Obscurity to Enigma traces the evolution of Heaviside's ideas against the background of growing knowledge in basic electromagnetic theory, telegraphy, and telephony at the time. It reveals the thematic coherence that unifies his various publications, and sheds considerable light on the reason for the exclamations of incomprehension that greeted his work from the time of its publication to the present.  The book is an important contribution to the history of science and technology in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and will be appreciated by electrical engineers, physicists, and applied mathematicians.  ------   (â¦) at present Yavetz is probably the best adept of Heaviside's life and work (â¦) The book is just as factual as it is written in an engaged and convincing way. The handwritten (notebooks, correspondence) and printed primary sources as well as most of the existing secondary literature on Heaviside are carefully and critically treated, documented and commented on. [translation from German] (Arch. Int. Hist. Sci.)  [This book] includes an analysis of many of his papers and provides an historical account of the likely origin and development of his ideas. Several major themes are identified by the author as the organizing principles for Heaviside's research and publication program. (Mathematical Reviews) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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