Mathematician:James Hopwood Jeans

Mathematician

English physicist, astronomer and mathematician.

Nationality

British

History

• Born: 11 September 1877 in Ormskirk, Lancashire, England
• Died: 16 September 1946 in Dorking, Surrey, England

Theorems and Definitions

• Rayleigh-Jeans Law (with Lord Rayleigh)
• Jeans Length
• Jeans Instability

Publications

• 1904: The Dynamical Theory of Gases
• 1906: An Elementary Treatise on Theoretical Mechanics
• 1908: The Mathematical Theory of Electricity and Magnetism
• 1919: Problems of Cosmology and Stellar Dynamics
• 1926: Atomicity and Quanta
• 1928: Astronomy and Cosmogony
• 1929: The Universe Around Us
• 1930: The Mysterious Universe
• 1931: The Stars in their Courses
• 1933: The New Background of Science
• 1934: Through Space and Time
• 1937: Science and Music
• 1940: An Introduction to the Kinetic Theory of Gases
• 1942: Physics and Philosophy
• 1947: The Growth of Physical Science

Notable Quotes

The Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician.

-- Quoted in 1937: Eric Temple Bell: Men of Mathematics: They Say: What Say They? : Let Them Say

Also known as

Often referred to with his honorific: Sir James (Hopwood) Jeans

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "James Hopwood Jeans": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

• 1937: Eric Temple Bell: Men of Mathematics ... (previous) ... (next): They Say: What Say They? : Let Them Say
• 1993: Richard J. Trudeau: Introduction to Graph Theory ... (previous) ... (next): $1$. Pure Mathematics: Why study pure mathematics?
• 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Jeans, Sir James Hopwood (1877-1946)
• 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Jeans, Sir James Hopwood (1877-1946)