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Oliver Heaviside

1850 - 1925

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Oliver Heaviside FRS (; 18 May 1850 – 3 February 1925) was an English self-taught mathematician and physicist who invented a new technique for solving differential equations (equivalent to the Laplace transform), independently developed vector calculus, and rewrote Maxwell's equations in the form commonly used today. He significantly shaped the way Maxwell's equations are understood and applied in the decades following Maxwell's death. His formulation of the telegrapher's equations became commercially important during his own lifetime, after their significance went unremarked for a long while, as few others were versed at the time in his novel methodology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Oliver Heaviside has received more than 982,799 page views. His biography is available in 58 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 56 in 2019). Oliver Heaviside is the 137th most popular mathematician (down from 129th in 2019), the 682nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 666th in 2019) and the 14th most popular British Mathematician.

Oliver Heaviside was a British mathematician, physicist, and electrical engineer who is most famous for his work in the field of electricity and electromagnetism.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Oliver Heaviside ranks 137 out of 1,004. Before him are Hermann of Reichenau, Lodovico Ferrari, Jacques Hadamard, Aloysius Lilius, Sophus Lie, and Mikhail Ostrogradsky. After him are Ernst Kummer, William Oughtred, Vincenzo Viviani, Harald Bohr, Andrew Wiles, and Mary Jackson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1850, Oliver Heaviside ranks 14. Before him are Karl Ferdinand Braun, Hermann Ebbinghaus, Charles Richet, Pierre Loti, Mihai Eminescu, and Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn. After him are Ignác Goldziher, Luigi Cadorna, Lafcadio Hearn, Lluís Domènech i Montaner, Henry Louis Le Chatelier, and Besarion Jughashvili. Among people deceased in 1925, Oliver Heaviside ranks 30. Before him are Duchess Mathilde Ludovika in Bavaria, Félix Vallotton, Hjalmar Branting, Eugen Sandow, Aleksey Kuropatkin, and Karl Abraham. After him are Fritz Haarmann, Percy Fawcett, John Singer Sargent, H. Rider Haggard, Pierre Louÿs, and Clément Ader.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Oliver Heaviside ranks 682 out of 8,785. Before him are George Porter (1920), Roy Hodgson (1947), James Francis Edward Stuart (1688), John Henry Newman (1801), James Clark Ross (1800), and Bruce Chatwin (1940). After him are William Jones (1746), Dua Lipa (1995), Jessica Tandy (1909), Peter Finch (1916), Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon (1930), and Jim Broadbent (1949).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, Oliver Heaviside ranks 14. Before him are Joan Clarke (1917), Thomas Harriot (1560), John Wallis (1616), Brook Taylor (1685), John Couch Adams (1819), and Colin Maclaurin (1698). After him are William Oughtred (1574), Robert Grosseteste (1175), Arthur Cayley (1821), James Joseph Sylvester (1814), James Gregory (1638), and Michael Atiyah (1929).

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