Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
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)