Re:Oliver Heaviside (1850-1925) – Physical Mathematician (1983)
by hilbert42 on Sunday April 11, 2021 @07:35PM
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An upvote to those who upvoted this, every bit shows that more people are becoming acquainted with Heaviside's works.
BTW, a factoid just occurred to me that some may not know, which is that the earth's ionosphere—those ionized layers ≈100-200km above ground that reflect radio waves—is called the Heaviside layer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennelly%E2%80%93Heaviside_lay....
BTW, a factoid just occurred to me that some may not know, which is that the earth's ionosphere—those ionized layers ≈100-200km above ground that reflect radio waves—is called the Heaviside layer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennelly%E2%80%93Heaviside_lay....
...And now some trivia straight from the almost-completely-useless information dept: somewhat strangely, the Heaviside Layer features in the musical Cats. It's at the point where Macavity the Mystery Cat tries to escape to the Heaviside Layer: https://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/cats-and-the-heaviside-lay... https://www.themarysue.com/cats-heaviside-layer-real/
"Up, up, up past the Russell Hotel
Up, up, up, up to the Heaviside layer
Up, up, up past the Russell Hotel
Up, up, up, up to the Heaviside layer"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKH63cRJ3p4
Methinks, Heaviside would not have approved (but then, that's rather presumptuous of me).