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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 930,690 page views. His biography is available in 56 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). Oliver Heaviside is the 129th most popular mathematician (down from 41st in 2019), the 666th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 680th 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 129 out of 823Before him are Andrew Wiles, Marian Rejewski, Brook Taylor, Henri Lebesgue, Herbert A. Hauptman, and Menelaus of Alexandria. After him are Andrey Markov, Simplicius of Cilicia, Alexis Clairaut, Michel Rolle, Liu Hui, and Robert Grosseteste.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1850, Oliver Heaviside ranks 15Before him are Hermann Ebbinghaus, Charles Richet, Mihai Eminescu, Pierre Loti, Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, and Pat Garrett. After him are Lafcadio Hearn, Henry Louis Le Chatelier, Luigi Cadorna, Lady Mary Victoria Douglas-Hamilton, Ignác Goldziher, and Victoriano Huerta. Among people deceased in 1925, Oliver Heaviside ranks 28Before him are Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar, Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Vincenzo Peruggia, Félix Vallotton, Duchess Mathilde Ludovika in Bavaria, and John Singer Sargent. After him are Vajiravudh, Fritz Haarmann, Léon Bourgeois, Aleksey Kuropatkin, H. Rider Haggard, and Eugen Sandow.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Oliver Heaviside ranks 666 out of 7,765Before him are Bernard Lewis (1916), Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (1864), E. H. Carr (1892), William Pitt the Younger (1759), Arthur Harden (1865), and Philip Pullman (1946). After him are Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury (1473), Robert Carlyle (1961), John Gurdon (1933), William Ewart Gladstone (1809), Macbeth, King of Scotland (1005), and Stirling Moss (1929).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, Oliver Heaviside ranks 14Before him are John Couch Adams (1819), John Wallis (1616), G. H. Hardy (1877), Isaac Barrow (1631), Andrew Wiles (1953), and Brook Taylor (1685). After him are Robert Grosseteste (1175), William Oughtred (1574), Arthur Cayley (1821), James Joseph Sylvester (1814), James Gregory (1638), and Colin Maclaurin (1698).