MATHEMATICIAN

Horace Lamb

1849 - 1934

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Sir Horace Lamb (27 November 1849 – 4 December 1934) was a British applied mathematician and author of several influential texts on classical physics, among them Hydrodynamics (1895) and Dynamical Theory of Sound (1910). Both of these books remain in print. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Horace Lamb has received more than 139,806 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Horace Lamb is the 789th most popular mathematician (up from 805th in 2019), the 3,965th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,499th in 2019) and the 81st most popular British Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Horace Lamb ranks 789 out of 1,004. Before him are Sergei Adian, Edward O. Thorp, Joseph Keller, Marie-Jeanne de Lalande, Charles Howard Hinton, and Cédric Villani. After him are Erich Hecke, Christine Darden, Morris Kline, Stefan Mazurkiewicz, Grigore Moisil, and Pyotr Novikov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1849, Horace Lamb ranks 103. Before him are Alfhild Agrell, John Hopkinson, Joaquim Nabuco, Princess Marie of Hanover, Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife, and Abbott Handerson Thayer. After him are William R. Day, August Palm, Sarah Orne Jewett, Edmund Gosse, Aston Webb, and Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin. Among people deceased in 1934, Horace Lamb ranks 136. Before him are Bunzō Hayata, Alfredo Zayas y Alfonso, Cecilia Grierson, Nathaniel Lord Britton, Jiro Sato, and Toros Toramanian. After him are Majit Gafuri, Sergey Lebedev, Frank J. Sprague, Paul Henri Lecomte, Broncia Koller-Pinell, and Heinz Prüfer.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Horace Lamb ranks 3,965 out of 8,785. Before him are Charles Howard Hinton (1853), John André (1750), Meave Leakey (1942), Abdalqadir as-Sufi (1930), Isaac Roberts (1829), and Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer (1857). After him are William Powell Frith (1819), Gerald Finzi (1901), Maxim (1967), Richard J. Evans (1947), Boyd Alexander (1873), and Louis Tomlinson (1991).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, Horace Lamb ranks 81. Before him are William Hopkins (1793), Charles Hutton (1737), Douglas Hartree (1897), Benjamin Robins (1707), William Henry Young (1863), and Charles Howard Hinton (1853). After him are Grace Chisholm Young (1868), Frank Morley (1860), Mary Everest Boole (1832), Arthur Geoffrey Walker (1909), Peter Tait (1831), and Annie S. D. Maunder (1868).

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