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| Jun 12, 2013 at 17:33 | comment | added | Margaret Friedland | A good account and a good read: MR1829410 (2002i:01019) Cannell, D. M. George Green. (English summary) Mathematician & physicist 1793–1841. The background to his life and work. Second edition. With a foreword and an obituary of Cannell by Lawrie Challis. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), Philadelphia, PA, 2001. xxxiv+316 pp. ISBN: 0-89871-463-X | |
| Jun 12, 2013 at 15:20 | comment | added | Finn Lawler | Here is a short video about Green and his functions, featuring the windmill: youtube.com/watch?v=ji-i6XCkgC0 | |
| Jun 12, 2013 at 14:49 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by S. Carnahan♦ | ||
| Jun 12, 2013 at 13:56 | comment | added | Ben Green | The windmill in Nottingham operated by Green (no relation) can still be visited: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green's_Mill,_Sneinton though it is something of a detour even if one happens to be in Nottingham. Isaac Newton's home, 28 miles away, could be ticked off too for a mathematical tour of the East Midlands of England. | |
| Jun 12, 2013 at 11:58 | comment | added | Oldřich Spáčil | It might be worth reading more about his life on The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive: www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Green.html . Especially because wiki doesn't give any references for the above paragraph. | |
| Jun 12, 2013 at 10:18 | history | answered | Carlo Beenakker | CC BY-SA 3.0 |