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# The Forgotten Genius of Oliver Heaviside: A Maverick of Electrical Science Kindle Edition

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## Customer Reviews

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    good book
  

*by I***N on Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2018*

This is a good book. Not too many science books leave me crying, but this one did. Well, it's a combo isn't it: science book and biography. It is well written and even though I knew the story and what was happening, the writing was so good at the end that a tear or two welled up, thinking about how this amazing eccentric genius was so shabbily treated in his professional life.I had read Paul Nahin's book (also reviewed here) as well as Hunt's Maxwellians and Mahon's earlier tag-team volume on Faraday and Maxwell. So I was familiar with the details, as I said above. Surely there isn't much more we can hope to know about the subject now as the sources must be all but entirely used. Having said that, I agree with the author's motivation for writing yet another book on Heaviside: to try to help him reach as wide an audience as possible. Good intent, and well executed.The problem with such a subject and aim is that repetition is unavoidable. Mahon mostly stays clear of the mathematics that Nahin embraced, so that may be an attractor for many potential readers. But that apart, the story is much the same, the structure necessarily similar, and even the illustrations much the same. To nitpick on a small point, I was surprised to see the same use Nahin makes of a Pais appendix in his bio of Einstein, about Oliver being nominated for the physics Nobel in 1912. As I pointed out in my Nahin review, in fact between 1904 and 1914 Heaviside was nominated for the prize 7 times. (My source is a simple internet search that resulted in a website called physicsnobel.com/nominations.) It is astonishing to me that given the underwhelming but very practical discoveries that resulted in the prize in some of those years, that breakthroughs of his such as the distortion-free transmission line or the powerful role of inductance in better transmission, were not judged worthy of anointing. Such curious or even combative notions are not taken up by the author.Never mind, a good book as I said, one that enjoyed very much.

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    A forgotten pioneer in physics, mathematics and engineering
  

*by R***R on Reviewed in the United States on December 11, 2017*

Here's a compact look at one of the unsung geniuses of the 19th Century.  Heaviside was a self-taught physicist, mathematician and engineer.  In his entire life he only very briefly held a paying job, as a telegrapher.  With telegraph cables being laid between continents, Heaviside was the first to understand how such cables could be made essentially loss-free.  [Another physicist patented Heaviside's idea and made a fortune.]  He was the first to write Maxwell's equations in the form in which they are still written today, and (not mentioned in this book) he was the first to suggest that gravity possessed a radiation field... in other words, he predicted gravitational waves.  He developed operator-based mathematical techniques to solve difficult differential equations, and was the first to realize that long-distance radio communication was possible only because a region in the upper atmosphere of the earth reflected waves of radio frequencies back to earth.  He was also one of the first to recognize an example of what is now called Gauge Invariance, a pillar of the current Standard Model of Particles and Fields.  He was nominated for a Nobel prize in physics several times, as far as I can learn from the Nobel website.In person and in personality, however, he was a very strange and difficult man, and got steadily stranger and more reclusive as he got older.  Partial deafness resulting from a childhood illness left him extremely uneasy in circumstances where more than one or two people were present, and he rarely if ever "tooted his own horn" about his pioneering achievements in physics, mathematics and engineering.  He made one or two powerful enemies, which prevented some of his most important discoveries from being applied right away by engineers.  The delay allowed others to claim credit, where none was due.Heaviside needs to be much better known and remembered than he is at present, and this book may help to spread the word about his wisdom (and wit).

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    Lively biography of a Victorian eccentric
  

*by J***N on Reviewed in the United States on June 17, 2020*

An affectionate biography of a most unusual Victorian eccentric. Oliver Heaviside came from a modest background, had no university training, worked as an electrical engineer for a few years only, then retired to live on a minimal income a reclusive and rather misanthropic life. Yet he, and a few distinguished scientific friends, took James Clerk Maxwell’s revolutionary theory of electromagnetism and turned it into the most important pillar of the new physics of Einstein and Planck. Basil Mahon is already familiar to me as the author of an excellent biography of Maxwell (‘The Man Who Changed Everything’). This book is in his lively, readable style, and can be enjoyed by everyone, with or without scientific training. Having just finished reading it, I am now going to start again, and take notes! The Kindle edition is well produced, with very few typos; it is illustrated, with notes, bibliography, and index.

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