Mathematical and Physical Papers

The collected papers of Sir George Stokes, the outstanding and influential nineteenth-century Cambridge mathematician.

1. On the steady motion of incompressible fluids; 2. On some cases of fluid motion; 3. On the motion of a piston and of the air in a cylinder; 4. On the theories of the internal friction of fluids in motion, and of the equilibrium and motion of elastic solids; 5. On the proof of the proposition that (Mx + Ny)-1 is an integrating factor of the homogeneous differential equation M + N dy/dx = 0; 6. On the aberration of light; 7. On Fresnel's theory of the aberration of light; 8. On a formula for determining the optical constants of doubly refracting crystals; 9. On the constitution of the luminiferous ether, viewed with reference to the aberration of light; 10. Report on recent researches on hydrodynamics; 11. Supplement to a memoir on some cases of fluid motion; 12. On the theory of oscillatory waves; 13. On the resistance of a fluid to two oscillating spheres; 14. On the critical values of the sums of period series; 15. Supplement to a paper on the theory of oscillatory waves; Index.