Silvanus Phillips Thompson was an English professor of physics at the City and Guilds Technical College in Finsbury, England. He was elected to the Royal Society in 1891 and was known for his work as an electrical engineer and as an author. Thompson's most enduring publication is his 1910 text Calculus Made Easy, which teaches the fundamentals of infinitesimal calculus, and is still in print. Thompson also wrote a popular physics text, Elementary Lessons in Electricity and Magnetism, as well as biographies of Lord Kelvin and Michael Faraday.

Calculus Made Easy
2014
ISBN 9781466866355
The quest for truth
1915
ISBN 9780524085967
A not impossible religion
1918
ISBN 9780524065037
Gilbert, of Colchester - an Elizabethan Magnetizer
2009
ISBN 9781444636024
The Magic Mirrors Of Old Japan
2019
ISBN 9780244753245