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Giovanni Giorgi's correspondence with Oliver Heaviside
The original correspondence with British mathematician Oliver Heaviside. In Giorgi’s hands, the ideas of Heaviside became essential elements both for developing new logical descriptions of electromagnetic phenomena and for improving the system of units.
Handwritten letter,
9 February 1902
294 kB
Original paper
"Rational Units of
Electromagnetism"
1'645 kB
Handwritten letter
25 February 1902
72 kB
Typewritten letter
11 March 1902
168 kB
Typewritten letter
448 kB
Handwritten letter
29 March 1902
266 kB