References for Oliver Heaviside

Version for printing
  1. C Susskind, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
  2. Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica. [Available on the Web]
  3. Obituary in The Times [available on the Web]

Books:

  1. J Z Buchwald, From Maxwell to microphysics (Chicago, 1985).
  2. B J Hunt, The Maxwellians (Ithica NY, 1991).
  3. H J Josephs, Oliver Heaviside : a biography (London, 1963).
  4. G Lee, Oliver Heaviside (London, 1947).
  5. P J Nahin, Oliver Heaviside : Sage in solitude : the life, work, and times of an electrical genius of the Victorian age (New York, 1988).
  6. J G O'Hara and W Pricha, Hertz and the Maxwellians (London, 1987).
  7. G F C Searle, Oliver Heaviside, the man (St. Albans, 1987).
  8. I Yavetz, From Obscurity to Enigma: The Work of Oliver Heaviside, 1872-1889 (Basel, 1995).

Articles:

  1. W A Atherton, Oliver Heaviside (1850-1925) : champion of inductance, Electronics and wireless world 93 (1987), 789-790.
  2. J Z Buchwald, Oliver Heaviside, Maxwell's apostle and Maxwellian apostate, Centaurus 28 (1985), 288-330.
  3. B J Hunt, Practice vs Theory: The British electrical debate, 1888-1891, Isis 74 (273) (1983), 341-355.
  4. P A Kullstam, Heaviside's Operational Calculus: Oliver's Revenge, IEEE Transactions on Education 34 (2) (1991), 155-156.
  5. J Lutzen, Heaviside's operational calculus and the attempts to rigorise it, Archive for History of Exact Sciences 21 (1979), 161-200.
  6. A C Lynch, The sources for a biography of Oliver Heaviside, History of technology 13 (1991), 145-149.
  7. A C Lynch, The Sources for a Biography of Oliver Heaviside, History of Technology 13 (1991) 145-149.
  8. P J Nahin, Oliver Heaviside, Scientific American 262 (June 1990), 80-87.
  9. Obituary of Oliver Heaviside, Proc. Roy. Soc. London 110A (1926), 14.
  10. S S Petrova, Heaviside and the Development of the Symbolic Calculus, Archive for History of Exact Sciences 37 (1987), 1-23.
  11. E T Whittaker, Oliver Heaviside, Bull. Calcutta Math. Soc. 20 (1928-29), 216-220.
  12. I Yavetz, Oliver Heaviside and the Significance of the British Electrical Debate, Annals of Science 50 (1993), 135-173.
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