Josiah Willard Gibbs
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Josiah Willard Gibbs was an American mechanical engineer and scientist who made fundamental theoretical contributions to physics, chemistry, and mathematics. His work on the applications of thermodyna
Josiah Willard Gibbs from MMS
Willard Gibbs as a young man
Gibbs during his time as a tutor at Yale
Maxwell's sketch of the lines of constant temperature and pressure, made in preparation for his construction of a solid model based on Gibbs's definition of a thermodynamic surface for water (see Maxwell's thermodynamic surface)
Oliver Heaviside
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Oliver Heaviside was a British mathematician and physicist who invented a new technique for solving differential equations, independently developed vector calculus, and rewrote Maxwell's equations in
Josiah Willard Gibbs
…of Maxwell's equations to problems in physical optics. As a mathematician, he created modern vector calculus (independently of the British scientist Oliver Heaviside, who carried out similar work during the same period) and described the Gibbs phenomenon in the theory of Fourier analysis. In 1863, Yale University…
Heaviside, c. 1900
Blue plaque dedicated to Heaviside in Paignton