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Mathematicians and lay people alike will enjoy this fascinating book that details the life of George Green, a pioneer in the application of mathematics to physical problems. Green was a mathematical physicist who spent most of the first 40 years of his life working not as a physicist but as a miller in his father's grain mill. Green received only four terms of formal schooling, and at the age of nine he had surpassed his teachers. Green studied mathematics in his spare time and in 1828 published his most famous work, An Essay on the Application of Mathematical Analysis to the Theories of Electricity and Magnetism. It was in this essay that the famous Green's Theorem and Green's functions first appeared. Although this work was largely ignored during his lifetime, it is now considered of major importance in modern physics.
This is the first major biography of Green, and the most complete picture of Green's life and education, available today. Green is presented as a person rather than as merely the inventor of a mathematical function. This updated second edition includes a new section of scientific references along with the lectures given by Julian Schwinger and Freeman Dyson at the bicentenary celebration of George Green's birth held at the University of Nottingham in 1993.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction
In Memoriam: Mary Cannell
Chapter 1: Family Background
Chapter 2: George Green's Education
Chapter 3: Cambridge Interlude
Chapter 4: Bromley House Library and the Essay of 1828
Chapter 5: Sir Edward Bromhead
Chapter 6: The Publication of George Green's Further Investigations
Chapter 7: An Undergraduate at Cambridge
Chapter 8: A Fellowship at Caius College
Chapter 9: George Green's Family
Chapter 10: William Thomson and the Rediscovery of the Essay of 1828
Chapter 11: 'Honour in His Own Country'
Appendix I: The Mathematics of George Green by M. C. Thornley, formerly of the Mathematics Department, Nottingham Polytechnic
Appendix II: Mathematical Papers of George Green
Appendix IIIa: Account by William Tomlin, Esq.: 'Memoir of George Green, Esq.'
Appendix IIIb: Account by Sir E. Ffrench Bromhead
Appendix IVa: Green Family Tree
Appendix IVb: Butler Family Tree
Appendix IVc: Smith Family Tree
Appendix IVd: Tomlin Family Tree
Appendix Va: Time Chart of British Mathematicians and Men of Science
Appendix Vb: Time Chart of Other Mathematicians and Men of Science
Appendix VIa: The Greening of Quantum Field Theory: George and I by Professor Julian Schwinger
Appendix VIb: Homage to George Green: How Physics Looked in the Nineteen-Forties by Professor Freeman Dyson
Notes
References I: Biographical
References II: Scientific
Index.
