References for George Green


  1. P J Wallis, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
    http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2830901724.html
  2. Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica.
    http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9037940/George-Green

Books:

  1. D M Cannell, George Green Miller and Mathematician, City of Nottingham (Nottingham 1988).
  2. D M Cannell, George Green : Mathematician and Physicist 1793-1841 : The Background to His Life and Work (Athlone, 1993).
  3. A D D Craik, Mr Hopkins' Men: Cambridge Reform and British Mathematics in the 19th Century (Cambridge 2007)

Articles:

  1. T Archibald, Connectivity and smoke-rings : Green's second identity in its first fifty years, Math. Mag. 62 (4) (1989), 219-232.
  2. D M Cannell and N J Lord, George Green, Mathematician and Physicist 1793-1841, Mathematical Gazette 66 (1993), 26-51.
  3. D A Edge, The omission of George Green from 'British Mathematics (1800-1830)', Bull. Inst. Math. Appl. 16 (2-3) (1980), 37.
  4. D A Edge, George Green (1793-1841) : Nottingham's neglected genius, Bull. Inst. Math. Appl. 14 (7) (1978), 170-174.
  5. J E G Farina, The work and significance of George Green, the miller mathematician, 1793-1841, Bull. Inst. Math. Appl. 12 (4) (1976), 98-105.
  6. S Friedlander and A Powell, The mathematical miller of Nottingham, The Mathematical Intelligencer 11 (4) (1989), 38-40.
  7. I Grattan-Guinness, Why did George Green write his essay of 1828 on Electricity and Magnetism, Amer. Math. Monthly 102 (1995), 387-396.
  8. J Gray, There was a jolly miller, The New scientist 139 (1993), 24-27.
  9. J Gray, Green and Green's functions, The Mathematical Intelligencer 16 (1) (1994), 45-47.
  10. Green, George (1793-1841), Dictionary of National Biography XXIII (London, 1890), 42-43.
  11. H G Green, A biography of George Green, in Studies and Essays offered in homage to George Sarton (New York, 1946), 545-594.
  12. G Hall, George Green - who?, Math. Today (Southend-on-Sea) 34 (2) (1998), 48-50.
  13. Yu A Lyubimov, G Green's contribution to the development of electromagnetism (Russian), Istor. Metodol. Estestv. Nauk 34 (1988), 130-139.
  14. Yu A Lyubimov, George Green - physicist and mathematician (on the 200th anniversary of his birth) (Russian), Voprosy Istor. Estestvoznan. i Tekhn. (4) (1993), 140-144.
  15. D Mayer, George Green - founder of the mathematical theory of electrical and magnetic phenomena (Czech), DVT - Dejiny Ved Tech. 11 (4) (1978), 208-215.
  16. M Sand, George Green, applied mathematician, Missouri J. Math. Sci. 8 (1) (1996), 22-25.

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