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

"He was a man who often was incapable of conducting himself properly in the most elementary social interactions. His only continuing contacts with women were limited to his mother, nieces, and housekeepers. He was a man who knew the power of money and desired it, but refused to work for it, preferring to live off the sweat of his family and long—suffering friends, whom he often insulted even as ...