Memoir and Scientific Correspondence of the Late Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Bart. Volume 2: Selected and Arranged by Joseph Larmor (Cambridge Library Collection - Physical Sciences) - Softcover

Stokes, George Gabriel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1108008925 ISBN 13: 9781108008921

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge and President of the Royal Society, Sir George Gabriel Stokes (1819–1904) made substantial contributions to the fields of fluid dynamics, optics, physics, and geodesy, in which numerous discoveries still bear his name. The Memoir and Scientific Correspondence of the Late Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Bart., edited by Joseph Larmor, offers rare insight into this capacious scientific mind, with letters attesting to the careful, engaged experimentation that earned him international acclaim. Volume 2 (1907) includes important professional correspondence with James Clerk Maxwell, James Prescott Joule, and many others, with particular attention given to Stokes' activities with the British Meteorological Society. Many of his foundational innovations in optics are also explicated in these letters, serving in place of the authoritative volume he unfortunately never had the opportunity to complete.

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Book Description:

The Memoir and Scientific Correspondence of the Late Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Bart., edited by Joseph Larmor, offers insight into one of England's great scientific contributors to the fluid dynamics and optics disciplines. Volume 2 (1907) includes key professional correspondence with James Clerk Maxwell, James Prescott Joule, and many others.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1108008925
• ISBN 13: 9781108008921
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 520
• Editor: Larmor Joseph