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It remains to call attention to the chief outstanding difficulty of our subject [turbulent motion].

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A traveler who refuses to pass over a bridge until he has personally tested the soundness of every part of it is not likely to go far; something must be risked, even in mathematics.

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I am an old man now, and when I die and go to Heaven there are two matters on which I hope for enlightenment. One is quantum electrodynamics and the other is the turbulent motion of fluids. And about the former I am rather more optimistic.

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Horace Lamb

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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:
  1. Hydrodynamics (1895)
  2. The Dynamical Theory of Sound (1910)
  3. Higher Mechanics (1920)

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