Quote of the day
Men were only made into "men" with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally "a man" any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.
Horace Lamb
Born: November 27, 1849
Died: December 4, 1934 (aged 85)
Bio: Sir Horace Lamb FRS was an English applied mathematician and author of several influential texts on classical physics, among them Hydrodynamics and Dynamical Theory of Sound. Both of these books remain in print.
Known for:
- Hydrodynamics (1895)
- The Dynamical Theory of Sound (1910)
- Higher Mechanics (1920)