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Dead Reckonings
Personal blog · deadreckonings.commathscience
Dead Reckonings is a personal blog at deadreckonings.com about math and science. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Heaviside’s Operator Calculus (2007)”. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Dead Reckonings for its history of Oliver Heaviside and his operational calculus, a method that worked despite being unorthodox. The one comment cites the post as background on Heaviside.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Lost Art in the Mathematical Sciences
Most-linked posts?
- Heaviside’s Operator Calculus (2007)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-12-01
What Hacker News says?
A note on "craft" here is that Heaviside's other thing was inventing a kind of magical math that seems like it shouldn't work (even though it did) and ignoring everyone who complained about it. https://deadreckonings.com/2007/12/07/heavisides-operator-ca... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational_calculus
Comment linking /2007/12/07/heavisides-operator-calculus/
on “Oliver Heaviside and the theory of transmission lines (2021)”Submitted Heaviside’s Operator Calculus (2007) as a story · 83 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mental Calculating the 13th Root of a 100-Digit Number (Part I) as a story · 3 points
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