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RefNoMS/603/8/25
Previous numbers1364
LevelItem
TitleLetter from H M [Hector Munro] Macdonald, 52 College Bounds, Aberdeen, to [Joseph] Larmor
CreatorMacdonald; Hector Munro (1865-1935); British mathematician
RecipientLarmor; Sir Joseph (1857-1942); Irish theoretical physicist
Date24 February 1913
DescriptionHe has received things from [William Mitchinson] Hicks and has been thinking about them. He agrees with Hicks that the last part [of a set of essay topics] should be omitted as it is set. The first part has been discussed by [Henri] Poincaré and he doubts if there is anything more to be said; it may draw one or two essays, largely completions of what has been done. Hicks' suggestion is a good one, but with the difficulty that Kelvin has made a statement on the stability of such media and his intuition may be correct. It would be a fine piece of work to prove it, but the problem would have to be enunciated differently. On Macdonald's own suggestion, he has written it out at length on a separate sheet - the problem is an important one and one that has not been written about. There are several people who could make headway in it. He is sorry that Larmor is overloaded and Macdonald suffers in the same way.

With an appended sheet commencing: 'A solid moving through a liquid with uniform velocity produces motion in the liquid which can be represented as the effect of a vortex sheet...'. Pencil annotations by Joseph Larmor.
Extent6p.
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
AccessStatusOpen
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CodePersonNameDates
NA1351Macdonald; Hector Munro (1865 - 1935)1865 - 1935
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