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Textbooks used by Oliver Heaviside

Oliver Heaviside achieved a very high level in mathematics and physics by self-study, starting from a modest school-level math, and working alone in his room, without a tutor. Is it known what ...
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When were the foundations of vector calculus laid?

Upon some browsing I find from many online sources that vector calculus was created in the time of late 19th century by Gibbs and Heaviside, but Gauss, Green, Stokes, etc., who lived much before that, ...
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