Horace Lamb Scientist

Sir Horace Lamb FRS (/læm/; 27 November 1849 – 4 December 1934) was an English applied mathematician and author of several influential texts on classical physics, among them Hydrodynamics (1895) and Dynamical Theory of Sound (1910). Both of these books are still in print.

Personal facts

Horace Lamb
Birth dateNovember 27, 1849
Birth place
Cheshire , England , Stockport
Date of deathDecember 04, 1934
Place of death
England , Cambridge
Known for
Fluid dynamics

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Field of study
Applied mathematics

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External resources

  1. http://gutenberg.net.au/dictbiog/0-dict-biogL.html#lamb1
  2. https://archive.org/details/dynamicaltheoryo00lambrich
  3. https://archive.org/details/dynamics00lamb
  4. https://archive.org/details/elementarycourse00lambuoft
  5. https://archive.org/details/evolutionofmathe033213mbp
  6. https://archive.org/details/highermechanics00lambuoft
  7. https://archive.org/details/hydrodynamics00horarich
  8. https://archive.org/details/maththeorfluid00lambrich
  9. https://archive.org/details/staticsincluding00lambuoft