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Re:Oliver Heaviside (1850-1925) – Physical Mathematician (1983) by zwieback on Friday April 09, 2021 @12:17PM (#26752451)
MEs as well, step function for beam bending. I vaguely remember his name coming up in controls as well where Laplace is popular.
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Re:Oliver Heaviside (1850-1925) – Physical Mathematician (1983) by jhallenworld on Friday April 09, 2021 @12:32PM (#26752625)
Heaviside (partial fraction) expansion I think:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaviside_cover-up_method

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Re:Oliver Heaviside (1850-1925) – Physical Mathematician (1983) by mhh__ on Friday April 09, 2021 @12:21PM (#26752500)
The Heaviside step function probably
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Re:Oliver Heaviside (1850-1925) – Physical Mathematician (1983) by analog31 on Friday April 09, 2021 @12:35PM (#26752664)
I think it's great that the function named after him has a heavy side.
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Re:Oliver Heaviside (1850-1925) – Physical Mathematician (1983) by isitdopamine on Friday April 09, 2021 @05:30PM (#26756448)
I’ll leave this here:

https://me.me/i/barber-what-do-you-want-heaviside-you-heard-...

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Re:Oliver Heaviside (1850-1925) – Physical Mathematician (1983) by zwieback on Friday April 09, 2021 @09:41PM (#26758202)
Genius, want to upvote twice!
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