Oliver Heaviside
electrical engineer, mathematician and physicist (1850–1925)
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Oliver Heaviside was a British electrical engineer, mathematician, and physicist who lived from 1850 to 1925 and made major contributions to understanding electricity and electromagnetic waves. His work laid important groundwork for modern telecommunications and electrical engineering, though he was often ahead of his time and faced resistance from the scientific establishment.
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Oliver Heaviside (/ˈhɛvisaɪd/ HEV-ee-syde; 18 May 1850 – 3 February 1925) was a British mathematician and electrical engineer who invented a new technique for solving differential equations (equivalent to the Laplace transform), independently developed vector calculus, and rewrote Maxwell's equations in the form commonly used today. He significantly shaped the way Maxwell's equations were understood and applied in the decades following Maxwell's death. Also, in 1893, he extended them to gravitoelectromagnetism, which was confirmed by Gravity Probe B in 2005. His formulation of the telegrapher's equations became commercially important during his own lifetime, after their significance went unremarked for a long while, as few others were versed at the time in his novel methodology. Although at odds with the scientific establishment for most of his life, Heaviside changed the face of telecommunications, mathematics, and science.
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