Mathematician:Horace Lamb

Mathematician
English applied mathematician and author of several influential texts on classical physics.

Coined the word vorticity in $1916$.

Nationality
English

History

 * Born: 29 November 1849 in Stockport, England
 * Died: 4 December 1934 in Cambridge, England

Theorems and Definitions

 * Lamb-Oseen Vortex (with )
 * Lamb-Chaplygin Dipole (independently of )
 * Lamb Wave
 * Lamb Surface

Publications

 * 1879: A Treatise on the Mathematical Theory of the Motion of Fluids
 * 1895: Hydrodynamics


 * 1897:
 * 1902:
 * 1919:


 * 1910: The Dynamical Theory of Sound
 * 1912: Statics, including Hydrostatics and the Elements of the Theory of Elasticity
 * 1914: Dynamics
 * 1919: The Evolution Of Mathematical Physics
 * 1920: Higher Mechanics