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Oliver Heaviside

by Paul J. Nahin

Biography & MemoirFantasyThriller

2002

Biography of Oliver Heaviside, who was a self-taught English electrical engineer, mathematician, and physicist who adapted complex numbers to the study of electrical circuits, and invented mathematical techniques to the solution of differential equations.

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