Oliver Heaviside Wrote Maxwell’s Equations (2013)

Re:Oliver Heaviside Wrote Maxwell’s Equations (2013) by jhallenworld on Thursday June 25, 2015 @11:08PM (#9782272)

Heaviside was on the mathematician's side of this old debate: http://faculty.poly.edu/~jbain/histlight/readings/83Hunt.pdf

He perfected operational calculus for electrical engineering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational_calculus

   Norbert Wiener in 1926:

    "The brilliant work of Heaviside is purely heuristic,
    devoid of even the pretense to mathematical rigor. Its
    operators apply to electric voltages and currents,
    which may be discontinuous and certainly need not be
    analytic. For example, the favorite corpus vile on
    which he tries out his operators is a function which 
    vanishes to the left of the origin and is 1 to the 
    right. This excludes any direct application of the 
    methods of Pincherle…
    Although Heaviside’s developments have not been 
    justified by the present state of the purely 
    mathematical theory of operators, there is a great deal 
    of what we may call experimental evidence of their 
    validity, and they are very valuable to the electrical 
    engineers. There are cases, however, where they lead to 
    ambiguous or contradictory results..."

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Re:Oliver Heaviside Wrote Maxwell’s Equations (2013) by madengr on Thursday June 25, 2015 @11:57PM (#9782410)

What about Gibbs?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willard_Gibbs

I thought del operator was his?

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Re:Oliver Heaviside Wrote Maxwell’s Equations (2013) by LoSboccacc on Friday June 26, 2015 @02:36AM (#9782774)

and what about Gauss? the whole field was working or knew about the problem and each other knew the other researches, we just slapped the Maxwell name for recognition as he explained how the stuff worked (pretty much as Einstein equations weren't is own), and in the centuries became 'ownage' - it's interesting however to see how 'legends' form

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