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Horace Lamb

English mathematician (*1849 – †1934)

  • Fame49.8
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Lived 1849–1934, aged 85United Kingdom
United KingdomUnited KingdomAcademicsAcademic
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    18 languages
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  • Era
    1849–1934
    Aged 85
  • Awards
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    recognised works
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Updated 2026-06-22

Sir Horace Lamb 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.

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