Oliver Heaviside

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Further reading

• Heaviside, O. (2003). Electrical Papers: American Mathematical Society.
• Heaviside, O. (1950). Electromagnetic Theory. Oliver Heaviside. Complete and Unabridged Edition of Volume I... II and III with a Critical and Historical Introduction by Ernst Weber: Dover publications.
• Heaviside, O. (1892). On the Forces, Stresses, and Fluxes of Energy in the Electromagnetic Field: Harrison and Sons, Printers.
• Mahon, B. (2009). Oliver Heaviside: Maverick Mastermind of Electricity: Institution of Engineering and Technology.
• Nahin, P. J. (2002). Oliver Heaviside: The Life, Work, and Times of an Electrical Genius of the Victorian Age: Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Yavetz, I. (2011). From Obscurity to Enigma: The Work of Oliver Heaviside, 1872–1889: Birkhäuser Basel.

External links

• http://www.britannica.com/biography/Oliver-Heaviside
• http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201002/physicshistory.cfm
• http://theinstitute.ieee.org/technology-focus/technology-history/did-you-know-someone-else-wrote-maxwells-equations
• http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Heaviside.html
• http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/magazine/physicstoday/article/65/11/10.1063/PT.3.1788
• http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi426.htm
• http://www.theiet.org/resources/library/archives/biographies/heaviside.cfm
• https://archive.org/details/electricalpapers02heavrich
• https://archive.org/details/electromagnetict01heavrich

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