https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Heaviside/ https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Heaviside/ >His neighbours related stories of He

https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Heaviside/ https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Heaviside/ >His neighbours related stories of Heaviside as a strange and embittered hermit who replaced his furniture with 'granite blocks which stood about in the bare rooms like the furnishings of some Neolithic giant. Through those fantastic rooms he wandered, growing dirtier and dirtier, and more and more unkempt - with one exception. His nails were always exquisitely manicured, and painted a glistening cherry pink' Genius confirmed. EDIT: one of the traits of creative genius according to Hans Eysenck is psychoticism which includes an indifference to social norms: https://philipperushton.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Impure-Genius-Psychoticism-Intelligence-and-Creativity-1997-by-John-Philippe-Rushton.pdf https://philipperushton.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Impur...