Green’s Theorem in Stained Glass
DOI: 10.1063/1.1784258
I was glad to read Lawrie Challis and Fred Sheard’s biographical essay “The Green of Green Functions” (Physics Today, December 2003, page 41 ) about George Green, the underappreciated mathematician whose function is so widely used. In addition to the Nottingham and Westminster Abbey memorials described in the article, a memorial stained-glass window showing a diagram used for setting up calculations with Green’s theorem adorns the dining hall at his Cambridge University college, Gonville & Caius. It was a colorful contribution to my mathematical pilgrimage to England a few years ago.
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Jay M. Pasachoff, (jay.m.pasachoff@williams.edu) Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, US .
