...miller with private means. While a very young child he showed great talent for figures. In 1828 his ' Essay on the Application of Mathematical Analysis to the Theories of Electricity and Magnetism' was published by subscription at Nottingham. In this essay he first introduced the term ' potential...

...footnotes on §§ 516 and 517, and end of postscript to § 517. t See Green's Math. Paper*, p. 107. on the application of mathematical analysis, to the theories of electricity and magnetism. Contrast this with the circumstances when we have 'jelly' instead of ' ether '. There being no distortion...

...and end of postscript to § 517. t See Green's M,ith. I'upen, p. 107. UUAL, BJUMUSBJ&NTA.T1UM OF Ml on the application of mathematical analysis, to the theories of electricity and magnetism. Contrast this with the circumstances when we have 'jelly' instead of ' ether '. There being no distortion...

...See Electrostatics and Marj-netism, footnotes on §§ 516 and 517, and end of postscript to § 517. on the application of mathematical analysis, to the theories of electricity and magnetism. Contrast this with the circumstances when we have f jelly' instead of ( ether '. There being no distortion...

..."An attempt of this kind was made by Green, as early as in 1832, in his 'Mathematical investigations concerning the laws of equilibrium of fluids analogous to the electric fluid ' (Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Sociely, 1833, reprinted in G. GREEN, Mathematical Papers,...

...Anziehungs- und Abstossungs-Krafte. Gauss Werke 5, pp. 197-242, 1840, Gottingen, 1867. George Green: [1] An essay on the application of mathematical analysis to the theories of 822 Bibliography electricity and magnetism. Nottingham 1828. Math. Papers. London, Macmillan, 1871,...

...papers and, most important of all, obtained from his coach, a day before he left, two copies of Green's Essay on the Application of Mathematical Analysis to the Theories of Electricity and Maanetism. Thomson's father had by now conceived the ambition of seeing his son elected to a chair...

...Fourier's compares with Poisson's. The analogy is not coincidental. In 1828 Green had published privately An essay on the application of mathematical analysis to the theories of electricity and magnetism, a work that would be of great importance to William Thomson. Acknowledging Fourier in his preface,...

...Fourier's compares with Poisson's. The analogy is not coincidental. In 1 828 Green had published privately An essay on the application of mathematical analysis to the theories of electricity and magnetism, a work that would be of great importance to William Thomson. Acknowledging Fourier in his preface,...

...during his sojourn in Paris in 1845. Indeed, Kelvin gave to Liouville one of the two copies of Green's An Essay on the Application of Mathematical Analysis...Theories of Electricity and Magnetism (Nottingham, 1828), which Hopkins had given to him just before he left for Paris. Liouville founded his Journal de mathématiques...