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Hydrodynamics

work by Lamb
Also known as: “Mathematical Theory of the Motion of Fluids”
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  • Sir Horace Lamb
    Sir Horace Lamb

    …was enlarged and transformed into Hydrodynamics (1895); the latter was for many years the standard work on hydrodynamics. His other publications include Infinitesimal Calculus (1897), Dynamical Theory of Sound (1910), Statics (1912), Dynamics (1914), and Higher Mechanics (1920). His many papers, principally on applied mathematics, detailed his researches on wave…

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    …was enlarged and transformed into Hydrodynamics (1895); the latter was for many years the standard work on hydrodynamics. His other publications include Infinitesimal Calculus (1897), Dynamical Theory of Sound (1910), Statics (1912), Dynamics (1914), and Higher Mechanics (1920). His many papers, principally on applied mathematics, detailed his researches on wave…

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