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Oliver Heaviside
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Oliver Heaviside
Oliver Heaviside
FRS
(; 18 May 1850 – 3 February 1925) was a
self-taught
English
electrical engineer
,
mathematician
, and
physicist
who adapted
complex numbers
to the study of
electrical circuits
, invented mathematical techniques for the solution of
differential equations
(equivalent to
Laplace transforms
), reformulated
Maxwell's field equations
in terms of
electric
and
magnetic
forces
and
energy flux
, and independently co-formulated
vector analysis
. Although at odds with the scientific establishment for most of his life, Heaviside changed the face of telecommunications, mathematics, and science for years to come.
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