====== Oliver Heaviside ======

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Oliver Heaviside was actually responsible for the modern form of the equations that we now call [[equations:maxwell_equations|Maxwell equations]]. 

In addition, he invented the famous Heaviside step function.

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  * [[https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/PT.3.1788|Oliver Heaviside: A first-rate oddity]] by Bruce Hunt


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