Mathematician:Horace Lamb

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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

Definitions of concepts named for Horace Lamb can be found here.


Publications

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


Sources