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Horace Lamb

1849 - 1934

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Sir Horace Lamb (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 invented by Lamb in 1916. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Horace Lamb is the 815th most popular mathematician (down from 789th in 2019), the 4,289th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,966th in 2019) and the 87th most popular British Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Horace Lamb ranks 815 out of 1,004. Before him are Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Pyotr Novikov, Eugenio Calabi, Jacob Bronowski, Ivan Petrovsky, and David Gregory. After him are Nathan Jacobson, Edward O. Thorp, Mikhail Suslin, William Feller, Mary Everest Boole, and Anatoly Karatsuba.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1849, Horace Lamb ranks 100. Before him are Princess Marie of Hanover, Alfred Kleiner, Eugen Huber, Louis Glineur, Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife, and William Merritt Chase. After him are Henry Clay Frick, August Palm, John Hopkinson, Abbott Handerson Thayer, Edmund Gosse, and Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin. Among people deceased in 1934, Horace Lamb ranks 142. Before him are Cecilia Grierson, Andrés Héctor Carvallo, Davidson Black, Jiro Sato, John Brinck, and Wallace Fard Muhammad. After him are Hélène Boucher, Cass Gilbert, Frank J. Sprague, Elizabeth Gertrude Britton, Augusto Pestana, and Lou Tellegen.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Horace Lamb ranks 4,290 out of 8,785. Before him are Emily Mortimer (1971), Richard Burns (1971), Ireen Sheer (1949), Jill Evans (1959), Hugh Dancy (1975), and Brian Henton (1946). After him are Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778), Saint Mungo (518), Henry Sweet (1845), Arthur Berry (1888), Pat Barker (1943), and Paul Ince (1967).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, Horace Lamb ranks 87. Before him are Charles Howard Hinton (1853), John Lennox (1943), Grace Chisholm Young (1868), E. T. Whittaker (1873), Frank Morley (1860), and David Gregory (1659). After him are Mary Everest Boole (1832), William Henry Young (1863), William Shanks (1812), Joseph Wedderburn (1882), Richard Taylor (1962), and Richard K. Guy (1916).

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