Quote of the day
Bring me men to match my mountains,
Bring me men to match my plains,
Men with empires in their purpose,
And new eras in their brains.
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)