Nahin P.J. Oliver Heaviside: The Life, Work, and Times of an Electrical Genius of the Victorian Age

Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. - 2nd ed. - 358 p.
Oliver Heaviside was a pioneer of modern electrical theory. Born into a low social class of Victorian England, Heaviside made advances in mathematics by introducing the operational calculus; in physics, where he formulated the modern-day expressions of Maxwell's Laws of electromagnetism; and in electrical engineering, through his duplex equations. Now available with a new preface by the author, this acclaimed biography will appeal to historians of technology and science, as well as to scientists and engineers who wish to learn more about this remarkable man.