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George Green (mathematician)
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George Green (mathematician)
George Green
(14 July 1793 – 31 May 1841) was a
British
mathematical physicist
who wrote
An Essay on the Application of Mathematical Analysis to the Theories of Electricity and Magnetism (Green, 1828)
. The essay introduced several important concepts, among them a theorem similar to the 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
. Green was the first person to create a mathematical theory of electricity and magnetism and his theory formed the foundation for the work of other scientists such as
James Clerk Maxwell
,
William Thomson
, and others. His work on
potential theory
ran parallel to that of
Carl Friedrich Gauss
.
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