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Telecommunications is an exact science that depends heavily on scientific discoveries and advances in mathematics made by a small number of scientists and mathematicians in Europe during the mid-19th century, among whose names those of Volta, Ampère and Ohm, Faraday and Oersted, Maxwell, Hertz, and Heaviside are outstanding.
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Bray, J. (1995). Creators of the Mathematical and Scientific Foundations. In: The Communications Miracle. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6038-2_2
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