Quote of the day
The liberty of man consists solely in this: that he obeys natural laws because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been externally imposed upon him by any extrinsic will whatever, divine or human, collective or individual.
Oliver Heaviside
Born: May 18, 1850
Died: February 3, 1925 (aged 74)
Bio: Oliver Heaviside was a self-taught English electrical engineer, mathematician, and physicist who adapted complex numbers to the study of electrical circuits and reformulated Maxwell's field equations in terms of electric and magnetic forces and energy flux. Heaviside changed the face of telecommunications, mathematics, and science for years to come.
Known for:
- Electromagnetic theory (1893)
- Electrical papers (1892)
- Electromagnetic Waves (1889)
- Electrical Papers