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Facsimile editions of George Green's famous Essays are now available for sale. All profits from the sale of these books is used by the George Green Memorial Fund to promote interest in science among the young people of the East Midlands.

Four volumes are available:

• Volume 1: The First Essay (paperback)
• Volume 1: The First Essay (hardback)
• Volume 2: Fluids and Forces
• Volume 3: Vibrations and Waves

George Green (1793-1841) was one of the most remarkable of nineteenth century physicists, a self-taught mathematician whose work has contributed greatly to modern physics. He was a pioneer in the application of mathematics to physical problems. He had very little formal education and died without achieving any recognition among other mathematicians.

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Volume 1: The First Essay (paperback)

Essay on the Application of Mathematical Analysis to the Theories of Electricity and Magnetism
Facsimile of essay first published in 1828
ISBN 1-871281-01-6
Paperback, 88 pages, height 243 mm, width 190 mm
£10 plus postage and packing.

(This item is also available in hardback. See below)

A facsimile of the famous essay by a self-taught mathematican which has contributed greatly to modern physics. The Green’s function has been very widely applied to equations arising in classical physics and engineering and in recent years has been adapted to quantum mechanical problems in areas as diverse as nuclear physics, quantum electrodynamics and superconductivity.

George Green (1793-1841) was one of the most remarkable of nineteenth century physicists, a self-taught mathematician whose work has contributed greatly to modern physics. He was a pioneer in the application of mathematics to physical problems. He had very little formal education and died without achieving any recognition among other mathematicians.
Lord Kelvin rediscovered his work four years after his death and gave it wide publicity. Kelvin, James Clerk Maxwell, George Gabriel Stokes and others built on his pioneering work and Green gained a posthumous reputation amongst 19th- and 20th-century mathematicians and scientists. His work has had great influence and nowadays he is remembered principally for Green’s theorem in vector analysis, Green’s tensor (or the Cauchy-Green tensor) in elasticity theory and above all for Green’s functions for solving differential equations.
The Green’s function technique has been very widely applied to equations arising in classical physics and engineering and in recent years has been adapted to quantum mechanical problems in areas as diverse as nuclear physics, quantum electrodynamics and superconductivity.
This essay is remarkable for its clarity of exposition and modern mathematical notation. It can easily be understood and read with profit by today’s mathematical physicists.

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Volume 1: The First Essay (hardback)

ISBN: 1-871281-11-3
Hardback, 88 pages, height 270 mm, width 218mm
£20.00 plus postage and packing.

Contents as above.

This is one of a limited edition of 1000 prepared in 1958 for Professor Ekelof, Chalmers Institute, Gothenburg, who generously donated copies to the George Green Memorial Fund.

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Volume 2: Fluids and Forces

ISBN: 1-871281-09-1
Paperback, 106 pages, height 243 mm, width 190 mm
£10 plus postage and packing.

Volume II is a reprint of Green's two papers on electricity and magnetism which followed the First Essay. They were written in the period 1830-33. Sponsored by Sir Edward Bromhead, they were published in the Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society in 1833 and 1835.

Contents

• Mathematical Investigations Concerning the Laws of the Equilibrium of Fluids analogous to the Electric Fluid, with other similar Researches, by George Green, Esq., communicated by Sir Edward Ffrench Bromhead, Bart., M.A., F.R.S.L. and E. (Cambridge Philosophical Society, read 12 November 1832, printed in the Transactions 1833). Quarto, 63 pages.
• On the Determination of the Exterior and Interior Attractions of Ellipsoids of Variable Densities, by George Green, Esq., Caius College. (Cambridge Philosophical Society, read 6 May 1833, printed in the Transactions, Vol V, Part III, 1835). Quarto, 35 pages.

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Volume 3: Vibrations and Waves

ISBN: 1-871281-10-5
Paperback, 99 pages, height 243 mm, width 190 mm
£10 plus postage and packing.

Seven papers on wave theory published between 1833 and 1839. The first was sponsored by Sir Edward Bromhead patronage and published in the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Green continued his research in hydrodynamics before turning his attention to the question of the reflection and refraction of sound and light. His last six papers were written in Cambridge and published in the Cambridge Philosophical Society's Transactions.

Contents

• Researches on the Vibration of Pendulums in Fluid Media, by George Green, Esq., communicated by Sir Edward Ffrench Bromhead, Bart., M.A., F.R.S. Lond and Ed. (Royal Society of Edinburgh, read 16 December 1833, printed in the Transactions, Vol 13(1)). Quarto, 9 pages.
• On the Motion of Waves in a Variable Canal of Small Depth and Width, by George Green, Esq., B.A. of Caius College (Cambridge Philosophical Society, read 15 May 1837, printed in the Transactions of the Society, Vol VI, Part III, 1838). Quarto, 6 pages.
• On the Reflexion and Refraction of Sound, by George Green, Esq., B.A. of Caius College, Cambridge (Cambridge Philosophical Society, read 11 December 1837, printed in the Transactions, Vol VI, Part III, 1838). Quarto, 11 pages.
• On the Laws of the Reflexion and Refraction of Light at the Common Surface of two Non-Crystallized Media, by George Green, Esq., B.A. of Caius College (Cambridge Philosophical Society, read 11 December 1837, printed in the Transactions, Vol VII, Part I, 1838). Quarto, 24 pages.
• Note on the Motion of Waves in Canals, by George Green, Esq, B.A., of Caius College. (Cambridge Philosophical Society, read 18 February 1839, printed in the Transactions, Vol VII, Part I, 1839). Quarto, 9 pages.
• Supplement to A Memoir on the Reflexion and Refraction of Light, by George Green, Esq., B.A., of Caius College (Cambridge Philosophical Society, read 6 May 1839, printed in the Transactions, Vol VII, Part I, 1839). Quarto, 8 pages.
• On the Propagation of Light in Crystallized Media, by George Green, B.A., Fellow of Caius College (Cambridge Philosophical Society, read 20 May 1839, printed in the Transactions, Vol VII, Part II, 1839). Quarto, 20 pages.

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