Re:Oliver Heaviside (1850-1925) – Physical Mathematician (1983)
by ISO-morphism on Monday April 19, 2021 @01:36PM
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Indeed, and perhaps I should have expanded on the context surrounding that remark. The professor considered Heaviside to be underappreciated and used the story as a lesson on academic and establishment fallibility.
"Electromagnetic terms
Heaviside coined the following terms of art in electromagnetic theory:
• admittance (reciprocal of impedance) (December 1887);
• elastance (reciprocal of permittance, reciprocal of capacitance) (1886);
• conductance (real part of admittance, reciprocal of resistance) (September 1885);
• electret for the electric analogue of a permanent magnet, or, in other words, any substance that exhibits a quasi-permanent electric polarization (e.g. ferroelectric);
• impedance (July 1886);
• inductance (February 1886);
• permeability (September 1885);
• permittance (now called capacitance) and permittivity (June 1887);
• reluctance (May 1888)."
Methinks that's more than anyone else has done!