Mathematician:George Gabriel Stokes

Mathematician
Mathematician and physicist who made important contributions to fluid dynamics, optics and mathematical physics.

Known for the Navier-Stokes equations and Stokes' theorem.

He was not the pioneer of the latter; it was named after him for his habit of setting its proof as an examination question.

Nationality
Irish (then part of Great Britain).

History

 * Born: 13 Aug 1819, Skreen, County Sligo, Ireland
 * Died: 1 Feb 1903, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England

Theorems and Definitions

 * Stokes' Equation or Stokes Equation, also known as Airy's Equation, for.


 * Navier-Stokes Equations (with )


 * Kelvin-Stokes Theorem (with ), regarding surfaces in 3-space and their boundaries, also known as the Classical Stokes' Theorem
 * General Stokes' Theorem, regarding arbitrary manifolds and their boundaries

Also known as
Full name and title: Sir George Gabriel Stokes FRS.