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Horace Lamb

British mathematician

Died when: 85 years 7 days (1020 months)
Star Sign: Sagittarius

 

Horace Lamb

Sir Horace Lamb Kt FRS (27 November 1849 – 4 December 1934) was a British 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 remain in print.The word vorticity was coined by Lamb in 1916.


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