Oliver Heaviside is very often underrated and forgotten and he deserves not to be—even his reformulation of Maxwell's equations into the four that we know and c

Oliver Heaviside is very often underrated and forgotten and he deserves not to be—even his reformulation of Maxwell's equations into the four that we know and commonly use today alone ought to have him receive better history/recognition in the textbooks. This is probably because he was an outsider to the physics and electrical engineering establishment and he wasn't known to make friends easily, and he didn't abide fools well. Whilst CliffStoll's quote (and link) is from Paul J. Nahin's article in the Royal Society journal it's also worth highlighting the fact that Nahin has written a full bio on Heaviside (it's mentioned in the article's footnotes but might be overlooked). I have a copy of the book, it is excellent, it's likely the most comprehensive and authoritative written on Heaviside, and I'd thoroughly recommend it: Oliver Heaviside–The Life, Work, & Times of an Electrical Genius of the Victorian Age; Paul J. Nahin PJ ©1988-IEEE ©2002-John Hopkins Uni, ISBN 0-8018-6909-9 paperback ed. It's all very well to praise Heaviside but if one really wants to get a feel for the extent and depth of his work then I refer one to the following works of his that are on the Internet Archive (they're out of copyright so they can be downloaded). Note, as with many works, the Internet Archive has multiple copies some of which are more readable (or better scanned) than others, so the seemingly multiple entries are not duplicates. Two other points to note, this list is not comprehensive and the IA's file-naming conventions are sometimes skewed or confusing (apologies if I've made any typos): Electromagnetic Theory, Volume-1, Heaviside, Oliver, 1850-1925, 1893 edition: https://archive.org/details/electromagnetic00heavgoog https://archive.org/details/electromagnetic00heavgoog Electromagnetic Theory, Volume-1, Heaviside, Oliver, 1850-1925, 1894/1912 ed.: https://archive.org/details/electromagnetict01heavrich https://archive.org/details/electromagnetict01heavrich Electromagnetic Theory, Volume-2, Heaviside, Oliver, 1850-1925, 1894/1912 ed.: https://archive.org/details/electromagnetict02heavrich https://archive.org/details/electromagnetict02heavrich Electromagnetic Theory, Volume-3, Heaviside, Oliver, 1850-1925, 1893 ed.: https://archive.org/details/electromagnetict03heavuoft https://archive.org/details/electromagnetict03heavuoft Electrical Papers, Volume-1, Heaviside, Oliver, 1850-1925, 1892 ed.: https://archive.org/details/electricalpapers01heavuoft https://archive.org/details/electricalpapers01heavuoft Electrical Papers, Volume-2, Heaviside, Oliver, 1850-1925, 1894 ed.: https://archive.org/details/electricalpaper01heavgoog https://archive.org/details/electricalpaper01heavgoog Electrical Papers, Volume-2, Heaviside, Oliver, 1850-1925, 1894 ed.: https://archive.org/details/electricalpapers02heavrich https://archive.org/details/electricalpapers02heavrich Electromagnetic Waves, Heaviside, Oliver, 1850-1925, 1889 ed.: https://archive.org/details/electromagnetic01heavgoog https://archive.org/details/electromagnetic01heavgoog