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Oliver Heaviside, an Uncommon card
Oliver Heaviside was a British mathematician and electrical engineer who invented a new technique for solving differential equations, independently developed vector calculus, and rewrote Maxwell's equations in the form commonly used today.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 74
- DEF
- 65
- Power
- 139
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 80,000
Power 139 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 70 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He significantly shaped the way Maxwell's equations were understood and applied in the decades following Maxwell's death.
- Also, in 1893, he extended them to gravitoelectromagnetism, which was confirmed by Gravity Probe B in 2005.
- His formulation of the telegrapher's equations became commercially important during his own lifetime, after their significance went unremarked for a long while, as few others were versed at the time in his novel methodology.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Oliver Heaviside article was read about 80,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 74 and blocks with 65: each hit it takes is cut by 26 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Oliver Heaviside (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.

