Ernst Julius Berg-Educator and proselytizer of Heaviside's calculus
Ernst Julius Berg · 1994
uite recently, in a major American journal on elecQ trical engineering education, a rather forceful suggestion was made for (re)integrating Heaviside’s operational calculus in the training of electrical engineers. The author stressed the better physical motivation of this method, its conceptual parallelism to the well-known complex number method in a.c. circuit analysis, less mathematical intricacy and the particular appropriateness to initial value problems. In the light of this proposal, it might merit some interest to look at the “first wave” of the revival of Heaviside’s calculus some 70 years ago. Beginning around the First World