[Elecraft] OT James Clerk Maxwell

Pete Michaelis - N8TR pete.n8tr at gmail.com
Thu Mar 26 17:15:50 EDT 2020


Another very good book about Oliver Heavyside is 
Paul Nahin's  Oliver Heaviside: Sage in Solitude: The Life, Work,
and Times of an Electrical Genius in the Victorian Age:

https://www.amazon.com/Oliver-Heaviside-Solitude-Electrical-Victorian/dp/0879422386

73 Pete - N8TR




At 12:38 AM 3/26/2020, Kevin McQuiggin wrote:
>It is also of value to read about Professor 
>Oliver Heaviside, a less-heralded but brilliant 
>mathematician and physicist who was able to 
>simplify Maxwell’s very complex 
>electromagnetic theory of about 30 equations 
>down to a much more understandable set of 4 or 6 
>equations.  It is Heaviside’s 
>re-interpretation and simplification of 
>Maxwell’s original equations that are taught and used today.


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