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. The word vorticity was invented by Lamb in 1916.

Biography

Early life and education

Lamb was born in Stockport,

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