Oliver Heaviside

Oliver Heaviside FRS was a selftaught English electrical engineer, mathematician, and physicist who adapted complex numbers to the study of electrical circuits, invented mathematical techniques for the solution of differential equations , reformulated Maxwells field equations in terms of electric and magnetic forces and energy flux, and independently coformulated vector analysis. Although at odds with the scientific establishment for most of his life, Heaviside changed the face of telecommunications, mathematics, and science for years to come.

Heaviside was born at 55 Kings Street13 in Londons Camden Town. He was short and redheaded, and suffered from scarlet fever when young, which left him with a hearing impairment. A small legacy enabled the family to move to a better part of Camden when he was thirteen and he was sent to Camden House Grammar School. He was a good student but his parents could not keep him at school after he wasso he continued studying for a year by himself and had no further formal education.51

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