Mathematical Papers of the Late George Green, Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Green, George

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1333016956 ISBN 13 : 9781333016951

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

George Green’s Collected Mathematical Papers: a classic collection of early 19th-century insights on potential, fluids, optics, and vibration.

This facsimile edition presents the late George Green’s work as edited by N. M. Ferrers, offering a window into a largely self-taught mathematical genius and his pioneering ideas. The volume gathers papers that influenced theories of magnetism, electricity, wave motion, and light, many of which shaped later developments in physics and engineering.

The contents trace Green’s investigations into the mathematics of forces, fluid behavior, wave propagation, and optical phenomena. Through careful exposition and editorial notes, readers encounter foundational concepts such as potential energy, conservation principles, and the mathematics behind sound and light in complex media. The collection also includes discussions on pendulums in fluids and the theoretical underpinnings of wave theory.

• Explore foundational ideas on potential, energy, and the motion of fluids.
• See early analyses of wave behavior, sound, and light at material interfaces.
• Follow Green’s approach to elasticity, polarization, and the propagation of vibrations.
• Learn how editors frame the manuscripts and connect them to 19th-century mathematical study.

Ideal for readers interested in the history of mathematics, physics, and the origins of classical theories, and for students seeking a tangible link to early 1800s scientific thought.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The first paper, which is also the longest and perhaps the most important was published by subscription at Nottingham in 1828. It was in this paper that the term potential was first introduced to denote the result obtained by adding together the masses of all the particles of a system, each divided by its distance from a given point In this essay, which is divided into three parts, the properties of this function are first con sidered, and they are then applied, in the second and third parts, to the theories of magnetism and electricity respectively. The full analysis of this essay which the author has given in his Preface, renders any detailed description in this place unnecessary. In connexion with this essay, the corresponding portions ofT homson and Tait sN atural PhU oaophy should be studied, especially Appendix A. to Chap. I., and A rts. 482 660, inclusive. The next paper, On theL aws of theE quilibrium ofF luids analogous to theE lectric Fluid, was laid before the Cambridge Philosophical Society byS irE dward Ffrench Bromhead, in 1832. The law of repulsion of the particles of the supposed fluid here considered is taken to be inversely proportional to then power of the distance. This paper, though displaying great analytical power, is perhaps rather curious than practically interesting; and a similar remark applies to that which succeeds it, On the determination of the attractions of Ellipsoids of variable Densities, which, like its predecessor, was communicated to the Cambridge Philosophical Society byS ir E. F. Bromhead.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1333016956
• ISBN 13: 9781333016951
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352
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