论文标题
回到矢量和张量计算的根。 Heaviside与Gibbs
Back to the Roots of Vector and Tensor Calculus. Heaviside versus Gibbs
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论文摘要
1888年6月，奥利弗·海维赛德（Oliver Heaviside）通过邮件收到了一本正式未发表的小册子，该小册子是由美国作家威拉德·J·吉布斯（Willard J. Gibbs）撰写和印刷的。该原始文件保存在华盛顿特区史密森学院的科学技术史图书馆中。 Heaviside非常仔细地研究了吉布斯的作品，并在小册子的边缘写了一些注释。即使他批评吉布斯的符号系统，他也是吉布斯在针对季学家的矢量分析方面的强大捍卫者。我们论文的目的是分析Heaviside的注释，并调查美国物理学家在Heaviside工作发展中所扮演的角色。
In June 1888, Oliver Heaviside received by mail an officially unpublished pamphlet, which was written and printed by the American author Willard J. Gibbs around 1881-1884.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 criticized 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.
