Greens Windmill and Geroge Green (Mathematician)

[melodysparks]

Green’s Windmill is a restored and working 19th century tower windmill in Sneinton about 1 mile from the city cente of Nottingham.



The Mill was built around 1807 by the father Nottingham's 19th-century mathematical physicist George Green. In 1829 when his father died George Green inherited the mill and operated it until his death in 1841.



The mill was still used until the 1860s but was abandoned and fell into disrepair and eventually in 1947 it was almost destroyed by fire.



The derelict mill was acquired by Nottingham City Council in 1979 and with funds raised and it was renovated by Thompson's, millwrights between 1984 and 1986. It was reopened on 2 December 1986 and is now part of a science centre which is open to the public.



George Green wrote An Essay on the Application of Mathematical Analysis to the Theories of Electricity and Magnetism, he also is responsible for Green's Theorem, Green's Functions, Green's Identities, Green measure and Green's matrix.

Green's work wasn't well known during his lifetime in the mathematical community but in 1845 his work was rediscovered by the William Thomson later known as Lord Kelvin, who popularised it for future mathematicians. On a visit to Nottingham in 1930, Albert Einstein commented that Green's work had been 20 years ahead of his time and theoretical physicist Julian Schwinger, used Green's functions in his ground-breaking works and published a tribute titled "The Greening of Quantum Field Theory: George and I," in 1993.



There is a memorial stone in the nave of Westminster Abbey adjoining the graves of Sir Isaac Newton and Lord Kelvin. George Green is buried at St Stephen Church, Sneinton, Nottingham

Comments

[aadarshinah.livejournal.com]

Lovely. I particularly like the one with the scoop, though I cannot articulate why

[melodysparks.livejournal.com]

Thank you the windmill is one of those little gems of Nottingham and is also free to visit.

The windmill was literally around the corner and across the road from where I spent the first 3 years of my life and I was christened in St Stephens church where George Green is buried

[aadarshinah.livejournal.com]

I'm so jealous of you for living somewhere, well, interesting. Me? I walked into Subway today and they were playing gospel music on the muzak. You can't get much more middle-of-nowhere than that.

[melodysparks.livejournal.com]

I am sure there are some interesting places where you are

[aadarshinah.livejournal.com]

Is that sarcasim? I think it is. But thanks for the effort. You mean well, I'm sure.

[melodysparks.livejournal.com]

Not at all just trying to be optimistic

Not knowing where someone is from I can only hope they live somewhere that is as interesting as where I come from no matter where it is no matter how old or new the place is.

[aadarshinah.livejournal.com]

it's the proverbial H in nowhere, but what can you do?

[melodysparks.livejournal.com]

I just find everywhere I go facinating maybe its the photographer in me always seeing things a different way

[aadarshinah.livejournal.com]

That's good at least. I never had the artistic eye myself. I've always been more of a words-girl.

[melodysparks.livejournal.com]

Words are still a way of narrating a moment in time

[aadarshinah.livejournal.com]

Very true. If not very helpful that one time I took a photography class. Oh well. To each his/her own.

[melodysparks.livejournal.com]

I never had the oppertunity to do photography classes I left school at 16 and went straight to work but then when I was at school we didn't have those sort of classes just the boring stuff

[aadarshinah.livejournal.com]

it was a rec for my Digital Media degree - which is just a fancy way of saying graphics and webpages and stuff. I was always a lot better at the coding than the artwork.

[tamnat.livejournal.com]

It looks poetic -it's got wings :)

[melodysparks.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

Its a lovely building and still working too. YOu can buy the flour it produces in the sceince centre shop and its good flour too from locally grown wheat.