Mathematician:George Gabriel Stokes

Full name and title: Sir George Gabriel Stokes.

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 August 1819
 * Died: 1 February 1903

Theorems and Definitions

 * Navier-Stokes Equations
 * Classical Stokes' Theorem, regarding surfaces in 3-space and their boundaries;
 * General Stokes' Theorem, regarding arbitrary manifolds and their boundaries.