Mathematician:James Hopwood Jeans
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Mathematician
Sir James Hopwood Jeans was an English physicist, astronomer and mathematician.
Nationality
British
History
- Born: 11 September 1877 in Ormskirk, Lancashire, England
- Died: 16 September 1946 in Dorking, Surrey, England
Theorems and Definitions
Publications
- 1904: The Dynamical Theory of Gases
- 1906: An Elementary Treatise on Theoretical Mechanics
- 1908: The Mathematical Theory of Electricity and Magnetism
- 1919: Problems of Cosmology and Stellar Dynamics
- 1926: Atomicity and Quanta
- 1928: Astronomy and Cosmogony
- 1929: The Universe Around Us
- 1930: The Mysterious Universe
- 1931: The Stars in their Courses
- 1933: The New Background of Science
- 1934: Through Space and Time
- 1937: Science and Music
- 1940: An Introduction to the Kinetic Theory of Gases
- 1942: Physics and Philosophy
- 1947: The Growth of Physical Science
Notable Quotes
- The Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician.
- -- Quoted in 1937: Eric Temple Bell: Men of Mathematics: They Say: What Say They? : Let Them Say
Also known as
Often referred to with his honorific: Sir James (Hopwood) Jeans
Sources
- John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "James Hopwood Jeans": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
- 1937: Eric Temple Bell: Men of Mathematics ... (previous) ... (next): They Say: What Say They? : Let Them Say
- 1993: Richard J. Trudeau: Introduction to Graph Theory ... (previous) ... (next): $1$. Pure Mathematics: Why study pure mathematics?
- 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Jeans, Sir James Hopwood (1877-1946)
- 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Jeans, Sir James Hopwood (1877-1946)