Oliver Heaviside, Sage in Solitude: The Life, Work, and Times of an Electrical Genius of the Victorian AgeBiography 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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The Origins of Heaviside | 1 |
Strange Mathematics | 10 |
The Early Years | 13 |
Copyright | |
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