Horace Lamb

Sir Horace Lamb was a British applied mathematician, born in Stockport, Cheshire, in 1849, and the author of influential texts on classical physics, among them Hydrodynamics of 1895 and The Dynamical Theory of Sound of 1910, both still in print. He studied at Stockport Grammar School and then at Cambridge, where by 1874 he was lecturing on hydrodynamics at Trinity. In 1885 he became Professor of Mathematics at Owens College, Manchester, a chair that became the Beyer Chair in 1888 and which he held until he retired in 1920. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1884, received its Royal Medal in 1902 and the Copley Medal in 1924, and was president of the London Mathematical Society from 1902 to 1904.