Oliver Heaviside
Physicist, Academic
1850 – 1925
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Who was Oliver Heaviside?
Oliver Heaviside FRS was a self-taught English electrical engineer, mathematician, and physicist who adapted complex numbers to the study of electrical circuits, invented mathematical techniques to the solution of differential equations, 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 mathematics and science for years to come.
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- Born
- May 18, 1850
Camden Town - Nationality
- England
- Profession
- Died
- Feb 3, 1925
Torquay
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on July 23, 2013
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