Theory and applications of field-effect transistors: by Richard S.C. Cobbold. 534 pages, diagrams, 6 × 9 in. New York, John Wiley, 1970. Price, $19.95.

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• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1971
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 199 KB
• Volume: 292
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(71)90106-2

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path; his language was always forceful and sometimes rude. Gibbs took little part, content to maintain his opinions convincingly with quiet dignity. Heaviside, who cared little for any kind of orthodoxy, was as belligerent as Tait and much wittier. With the turn of the century, the advantages of the Gibbs-Heaviside system in teaching and exposition began to be widely recognized, Quaternions remain as an interesting special algebra, and some of Grassmann's work has found a place in algebraic geometry. This, very briefly, is the story that Professor Crowe hss to tell: and he tells it clearly, in full detail, with excellent documentation ; little of importance has escaped his bibliographical net. In describing the development of vectorial thought from the early days, both in its main streams and in its backwaters, in providing character sketches of the main actors in this mathematical comedy, the author has produced a fascinating volume, at once informative and readable. T. A. A. BROADBENT