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 Carl Wilhelm Oseen)
• Lamb-Chaplygin Dipole (independently of Sergey Alexeyevich Chaplygin)
• Lamb Wave
• Lamb Surface

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

• 1897: An Elementary Course of Infinitesimal Calculus
  • 1902: An Elementary Course of Infinitesimal Calculus, 2nd ed.
  • 1919: An Elementary Course of Infinitesimal Calculus, 3rd ed.

• 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

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Horace Lamb": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive