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Green’s functions are named after the mathematician and physicist George Green who was born in Nottingham in 1793 and “invented” the Green’s function in 1828. This invention was developed in an essay written by Green entitled “Mathematical Analysis to the Theories of Electricity and Magnetism” originally published in Nottingham in 1828 and reprinted by the George Green Memorial Committee to mark the bicentenary of the birth of George Green in 1993. In this essay, Green’s function solutions to the Laplace and Poisson equation are formulated (but not in the manner considered in this chapter, in which the Green’s function is defined using the delta function).
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Evans, G.A., Blackledge, J.M., Yardley, P.D. (1999). Green’s Functions. In: Analytic Methods for Partial Differential Equations. Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0379-0_5
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