Associations to the word «Heaviside»

Wiktionary

HEAVISIDE UNIT FUNCTION, noun. (mathematics) The function whose value is zero if its independent variable is negative, and one otherwise.

Dictionary definition

HEAVISIDE, noun. English physicist and electrical engineer who helped develop telegraphic and telephonic communications; in 1902 (independent of A. E. Kennelly) he suggested the existence of an atmospheric layer that reflects radio waves back to earth (1850-1925).

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King