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May 18, 1850 – February 3, 1925

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

However absurd it may seem, I do in all seriousness hereby declare that I am animated mainly by philanthropic motives. I desire to do good to my fellow creatures, even to the Cui bonos .

Electrical Papers (1882), Vol. I; Preface, p.vii; Maxmillan and Co., London and New York. Full Text

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Waves from moving sources: Adagio. Andante. Allegro moderato.

Oliver Heaviside
— Electromagnetic Theory (1912), Volume III; p.1; "The Electrician" Pub. Co., London. Full Text

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Electric and magnetic forces. May they live for ever, and never be forgot, if only to remind us that the science of electromagnetics, in spite of the abstract nature of its theory, involving quantities whose nature is entirely unknown at the present, is really and truly founded on the observations of real Newtonian forces, electric and magnetic respectively.

Oliver Heaviside
— Electromagnetic Theory (1912), Volume III; p.1; "The Electrician" Pub. Co., London.

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Oliver Heaviside Quotes

May 18, 1850 – February 3, 1925

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