Oliver Heaviside

Oliver Heaviside FRS (18 May 1850 – 3 February 1925) is a self-taught English electrical engineer, mathematician, and physicist who adapts complex numbers to the study of electrical circuits, invents mathematical techniques to the solution of differential equations (later found to be equivalent to Laplace transforms), reformulates Maxwell's field equations in terms of electric and magnetic forces and energy flux, and independently co-formulates vector analysis.

Although at odds with the scientific establishment for most of his life, Heaviside changes the face of mathematics and science for years to come.

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