Horace Lamb

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Sir Horace Lamb FRS (November 29, 1849 - December 4, 1934) was a British applied mathematician and author of several influential texts on classical physics, among them Hydrodynamics (1879) and Dynamical Theory of Sound (1910). Both of these books are still in print.

He studied at Stockport Grammar School and Cambridge University and in 1872 was 2nd Wrangler in the Mathematical Tripos. His professors included James Clerk Maxwell and George Gabriel Stokes. In 1883 he published a paper in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society applying Maxwell's equations to the problem of oscillatory current flow in spherical conductors, an early examination of what was later to be known as the skin effect.

[edit] External link

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

[edit] References

  • Paul J. Nahin, Oliver Heaviside: Sage in Solitude, (1988), IEEE Press, New York, ISBM 0879422386


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