"An entertaining mathematical exploration of the heat equation and its role in the triumphant development of the trans-Atlantic telegraph cable."--Inside cover
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This work contains a collection of chapters, authored by leading experts, which cover the life and wide-ranging scientific contributions made by William Thomson, Lord Kelvin (1824-1907).
Kelvin's great accomplishment was to bring together all the experimental scientists of his time into one co-operative association for investigators whose individual efforts were aided by their combined results, expressed in a notation and described in language understood by ever…
