George Green
British mathematical physicist (*1793 - †1841) · United Kingdom · On the map · Scientists · Died at 47
George Green was a British mathematical physicist. Despite being almost entirely self-taught, having received only about one year of formal schooling as a child, between the ages of 8 and 9, Green made a number of key contributions to mathematical physics.
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Green's Mill in Sneinton, originally owned by Green's father. The mill was renovated in 1985 and is now a science centre.
Title page of a 1871 copy of the Mathematical Papers of the Late George Green![George Green and his common-law wife Jane were buried in St Stephen's Church, a few hundred yards from the Mill.[1]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/The_grave_stone_of_George_Green%2C_Professor_of_Mathematics_and_Green%27s_Theorem%2C_Caius_College_Cambridge_in_St_Stephen%27s_cemetery_a_little_closer_to_the_boundary_wall_than_his_parent%27s_grave_stone.jpg/1280px-thumbnail.jpg)
George Green and his common-law wife Jane were buried in St Stephen's Church, a few hundred yards from the Mill.[1]About this person
He is now best remembered for his Essay on electricity and magnetism of 1828, in which he introduced an early version of Green's theorem in vector calculus, the notion of potential functions as currently used in physics, and a method of solving differential equations called Green's functions. This paper formed the foundation for the work of later scientists such as William Thomson, among many others. His work on potentials ran parallel to that of Carl Friedrich Gauss.
