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Oliver Heaviside

The Life, Work, and Times of an Electrical Genius of the Victorian Age

by Paul J. Nahin · October 9, 2002

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Biography of Oliver Heaviside, who was a self-taught English electrical engineer, mathematician, and physicist who adapted complex numbers to the study of electrical circuits, and invented mathematical techniques to the solution of differential equations.

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