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Oliver Heaviside: The Self-Taught Genius Who Rewired the World
Oliver Heaviside was a self-taught British mathematician and physicist who transformed our understanding of electromagnetism. He rewrote Maxwell's equations into the modern form used today, invented a powerful mathematical tool for solving differential equations, and made groundbreaking predictions that made long-distance telephony possible.