Oliver Heaviside (1850 - 1925)

Born 18 May 1850 in Camden Town, London, England

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Died 3 Feb 1925 at age 74 in Torquay, Devon, England

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Biography

Oliver Heaviside is Notable.

English electrical engineer, mathematician, and physicist.^[1][2]Heaviside was able to greatly simplify Maxwell's 20 equations in 20 variables, replacing them by four equations in two variables. Today we call these 'Maxwell's equations' forgetting that they are in fact 'Heaviside's equations' according to Fitzgerald. Heaviside results on electromagnetism, impressive as they were, were overshadowed by the important methods in vector analysis which he developed in his investigations. His operational calculus, developed between 1880 and 1887, caused much controversy however. He introduced his operational calculus to enable him to solve the ordinary differential equations which came out of the theory of electrical circuits.^[3]

• Death: 3 Feb 1925, Torquay, Devon, England^[4][5]

• Burial: Paignton Cemetery, Devon^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ Bruce J. Hunt, ‘Heaviside, Oliver (1850–1925)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2011 accessed 31 Aug 2016
2. ↑ Wikipedia:Oliver Heaviside
3. ↑ https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Heaviside/
4. ↑ England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995, ancestry.com: "Name: Oliver Heaviside; Death Date: 3 Feb 1925; Death Place: Torquay, Devon, England; Probate Date: 20 Jul 1925; Registry: Exeter"
5. ↑ England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007, ancestry.com: "Name: Oliver Heaviside; Birth Date: abt 1851; Date of Registration: Mar 1925; Age at Death: 74; Registration district: Newton Abbot; Inferred County: Devon; Volume: 5b; Page: 197"
6. ↑ UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current, ancestry.com: "Name: Oliver Heaviside; Birth Date: 18 May 1850; Birth Place: Devon, England; Death Date: 3 Feb 1925; Death Place: England; Cemetery: Paignton Cemetery; Burial or Cremation Place: Paignton, Torbay Unitary Authority, Devon, England; Has Bio?: Y; URL: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=13533147&ref=acom"

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