The Forgotten Genius of Oliver Heaviside by Basil Mahon

Author:Basil Mahon
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781633883321
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: 2018-01-09T05:00:00+00:00

…that you have gone further on than Maxwell and that if he had lived he would have acknowledged the superiority of your methods.21

In return, Heaviside thanked Hertz for killing off the action at a distance theories.

I recognised that these theories were nowhere, in the presence of Maxwell's, and that he was a heaven-born genius. But so long as a strict experimental proof was wanting so long would these speculations continue to flourish. You have given them a death blow.22

This letter must have made Hertz wince by reminding him of the damage he had done to his mentor Helmholtz's standing, but its truth was inescapable. A sign of the secure and genuine friendship between Hertz and Heaviside was that each felt free to criticize the other's work. For example, Hertz laid into Heaviside about the need to make his papers easier to follow.

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