Quote of the day
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
George Green

Born: July 14, 1793
Died: May 31, 1841 (aged 47)
Bio: George Green was a British mathematician and physicist, who wrote An Essay on the Application of Mathematical Analysis to the Theories of Electricity and Magnetism. The essay introduced several important concepts, among them a theorem similar to modern Green's theorem, the idea of potential functions as currently used in physics, and the concept of what are now called Green's functions.
Known for:
- Mathematical papers of the late George Green
- Out of the Spotlight
- George Green's, the Lion Who Couldn't Roar