Back to the roots of vector and tensor calculus: Heaviside versus Gibbs

IF 0.7 2区 哲学 Q2 HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Archive for History of Exact Sciences Pub Date : 2020-11-10 DOI:10.1007/s00407-020-00264-x
Alessio Rocci
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In June 1888, Oliver Heaviside received by mail an officially unpublished pamphlet, which was written and printed by the American author Willard J. Gibbs around 1881–1884. This original document is preserved in the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC. Heaviside studied Gibbs’s work very carefully and wrote some annotations in the margins of the booklet. He was a strong defender of Gibbs’s work on vector analysis against quaternionists, even if he criticised Gibbs’s notation system. The aim of our paper is to analyse Heaviside’s annotations and to investigate the role played by the American physicist in the development of Heaviside’s work.

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回到矢量和张量微积分的根:Heaviside和Gibbs
1888年6月,Oliver Heaviside通过邮件收到了一本官方未出版的小册子,这本小册子是由美国作家Willard J.Gibbs于1881-1884年左右撰写和印刷的。这份原始文件保存在华盛顿特区史密森学会的迪布纳科学技术史图书馆。Heaviside非常仔细地研究了吉布斯的作品,并在小册子的页边空白处写了一些注释。他是吉布斯反对四元数的向量分析工作的有力捍卫者,即使他批评吉布斯的记谱系统。本文的目的是分析哈维塞德的注释,并探讨这位美国物理学家在哈维塞德工作发展中所起的作用。
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Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Archive for History of Exact Sciences 管理科学-科学史与科学哲学
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期刊介绍: The Archive for History of Exact Sciences casts light upon the conceptual groundwork of the sciences by analyzing the historical course of rigorous quantitative thought and the precise theory of nature in the fields of mathematics, physics, technical chemistry, computer science, astronomy, and the biological sciences, embracing as well their connections to experiment. This journal nourishes historical research meeting the standards of the mathematical sciences. Its aim is to give rapid and full publication to writings of exceptional depth, scope, and permanence.
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