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Well the actual transform is due to LaPlace. Steinmetz didn't really work out any new math but he certainly pushed it's practical application forward. For bett

• madengr 9y ago
  I thought Heaviside came up with the Laplace transform method.
• billforsternz 9y ago
  In my courses we were taught the Laplace transform as part of analog control theory. It was clear that the Fourier transform was related, but it was taught completely independently in signals theory. Meanwhile I didn't know the Steinmetz impedance concept as (I understood it) was related to the Laplace transform, but it absolutely doesn't surprise me. I had a sense that all these things, things I'd really like to go back and learn properly, were deeply interrelated. I was sure they could best be presented to students through some kind of integrated and harmonious approach rather than the haphazard let-me-present-my-approach-to-one-aspect-as-if-it's-self-contained-when-really-it's-just-one-piece-of-a-bigger-puzzle approach the instructors (and textbooks) took. I wonder if the teaching of fundamental electrical engineering concepts has improved on average since the early 80s? Edit: typo