送交者: SVT 于 2005-5-28, 06:38:38:
回答: UK's most famous female scientist denied royal society fellowship again 由 hehe 于 2005-5-28, 00:48:46:
本人认为自学成才的Oliver Heaviside是电气理论最重要的奠基人之一,Maxwell方程式的矢量公式也是他整理出来的(Maxwell本人用四元数介绍他的方程)。而名气大得多的爱迪生,Tesla等是发明家,把东西做出来。他写的演算子论文被Royal Society拒绝,迄今不见Royal Society认错。
Oliver Heaviside, 1850-1925
Why should I refuse a good dinner simply because I don't understand the digestive processes involved.[reply when criticised for his daring use of operators before they could be justified formally.] ::Heaviside introduced his operational calculus to enable him to solve the ordinary differential equations which came out of the theory of electrical circuits. He replaced the differential operator d/dx by a variable p transforming a differential equation into an algebraic equation. The solution of the algebraic equation could be transformed back using conversion tables to give the solution of the original differential equation. Although highly successful in obtaining the answer, the correctness of Heaviside's calculus was not proved until Bromwich's work. Burnside rejected one of Heaviside's papers on the operational calculus, which he had submitted to the Proceedings of the Royal Society, on the grounds that it:"contained errors of substance and had irredeemable inadequacies in proof. ".Tait championed quaternions against the vector methods of Heaviside and Gibbs and sent frequent letters to Nature attacking Heaviside's methods.