> step function
As mentioned in the article he wasn't well accepted by academics of the time. A college math professor of mine remarked that the acceptance of naming the step function after him was intentionally demeaning to the rest of his work.
As mentioned in the article he wasn't well accepted by academics of the time. A college math professor of mine remarked that the acceptance of naming the step function after him was intentionally demeaning to the rest of his work.
"Electromagnetic terms
Heaviside coined the following terms of art in electromagnetic theory:
• admittance (reciprocal of impedance) (December 1887);
• elastance (reciprocal of permittance, reciprocal of capacitance) (1886);
• conductance (real part of admittance, reciprocal of resistance) (September 1885);
• electret for the electric analogue of a permanent magnet, or, in other words, any substance that exhibits a quasi-permanent electric polarization (e.g. ferroelectric);
• impedance (July 1886);
• inductance (February 1886);
• permeability (September 1885);
• permittance (now called capacitance) and permittivity (June 1887);
• reluctance (May 1888)."
Methinks that's more than anyone else has done!