Looking back [Ernst Berg ideas on Heavyside's calculus]

Quite recently, in a major American journal on electrical 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 AC 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.<
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