Download or read book George Gabriel Stokes written by Mark McCartney and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features a biographical sketch of the British mathematician and physicist George Gabriel Stokes (1819-1903), presented by the School of Mathematics and Statistics of the University of Saint Andrews in Scotland. Notes that Stokes developed the modern theory of motion of viscous fluids.