Mathematician:George Green

Famously (and mystifyingly) self-taught English mathematical physicist best known for Green's Theorem.

Did pioneering work on electromagnetism.

Nationality
English

History

 * Born: July 1793, Nottingham, England (exact date unknown)
 * 14 July 1793: Baptised
 * 1801 - 1802: Attended Robert Goodacre's school for four terms (exhausting everything they could teach him)
 * Died: 31 May 1841, Sneinton, Nottinghamshire, England

Theorems and Definitions

 * Green's Theorem
 * Green's Functions
 * Discrete Green's Theorem
 * Green's Identities
 * Green's Matrix
 * Green Measure
 * Cauchy-Green Tensor (with )
 * Liouville-Green Method of Approximations (with ), also known as the LG Method, or the WKB Method (after, and )

Books and Papers
Dates given below which are specific are the dates when the papers were first read before an audience.


 * 1828: An Essay on the Application of Mathematical Analysis to the Theories of Electricity and Magnetism
 * 12 November 1832: Mathematical Investigations concerning the Laws of the Equilibrium of Fluids analogous to the Electric Fluid, with other similar Researches
 * 6 May 1833: On the Determination of the Exterior and Interior Attractions of Ellipsoids of Variable Densities
 * 16 December 1833: Researches on the Vibration of Pendulums in Fluid Media
 * 15 May 1837: On the Motion of Waves in a Variable Canal of Small Width and Depth
 * 11 December 1837: On the Reflexion and Refraction of Sound
 * 11 December 1837: On the Laws of Relexion and Refraction of Light at the common Surface of two non-crystallized Media
 * 18 February 1839: Note on the Motion of Waves in Canals
 * 6 May 1839: Supplement to a Memoir on the Reflexion and Refraction of Light
 * 20 May 1839 On the Propagation of Light in Crystallized Media