What mathematical operator is often associated with Heaviside?
Euler's operator
Laplace's operator
Heaviside step function
Gaussian elimination operator
Answer
The Heaviside step function (also called the unit step function, the Heaviside function, the step function, the unit function, or the rectangular function) is a mathematical function defined by: ``` H(x) = 0, if x < 0 1, if x ≥ 0 ``` It is named after Oliver Heaviside, the British mathematician and electrical engineer who first introduced it in 1912.
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