Chapter 487: Chapter 235: Another Historical Boss (5.8K)_2
Using one’s reputation to clean up the school’s mess, in this day and age, how many professors are willing to do that?
Sadar Brandi?
Or Dasha Harry?
Or Alfesenie Hatton?
Obviously, none of these people are suitable.
At the thought of this.
William Whewell couldn’t help but rub his temples irritably.
"This is tough..."
And just at that moment.
Werner’s voice suddenly came from outside:
"Mr. Dean, the newly appointed Lucas Professor at the school wants to see you."
"The new Lucas Professor?"
William Whewell was slightly taken aback, then his eyes lit up.
Yes.
How could I have forgotten about this professor?
He then motioned for Thomson to have Xu Yun and the others sit down, while he said to Werner outside the door:
"Let him in, Werner."
"Alright, Mr. Dean."
A moment later.
The door to the room was pushed open again.
A man in his thirties, with a full beard and looking somewhat like Wolverine, hurriedly walked in:
"Mr. Whewell, about my course schedule for next semester can you... eh, you’re entertaining guests?"
William Whewell calmly acknowledged, standing up to lead him to Xu Yun and the others, saying:
"Well, let me introduce you. This is William Thomson, a graduate student from Trinity School. You should know him, right?"
The bearded man nodded and shook hands with Thomson:
"Thomson was the top in mathematics for both last year and this year, of course, I know him."
William Whewell then pointed to Xu Yun and the other two:
"As for these two... they are Maxwell and Luo Feng respectively."
"Maxwell?"
The bearded man raised his eyebrows, directly skipping over Xu Yun, and asked Whewell to confirm:
"The scholarship student from Scotland?"
Whewell nodded slightly again:
"Yes, that one..."
But before he finished speaking.
The bearded man leaped over to Maxwell and grabbed him by the shoulders, shaking him:
"So you’re Maxwell? Welcome to Trinity College. Are you interested in being my student? I can surely train you to be an excellent scholar, and then we can become famous as teacher and student together..."
Seeing this man’s rapid speech that omitted punctuation marks, a visible question mark appeared on Maxwell’s face:
"?"
In this situation.
William Whewell’s mouth twitched slightly, quickly interrupting the bearded man’s actions and supporting the introduction:
"Ahem... Maxwell, let me introduce this is our new Lucas Mathematics Professor at the University of Cambridge, Mr. George Gabriel Stokes."
"Mr. Stokes is very fond of excellent students, so sometimes he might be a bit enthusiastic, but you’ll get used to it, you’ll get used to it..."
While William Whewell was making excuses for Stokes’s behavior.
Xu Yun, who was feigning invisibility, had this expression on his face:
0v0!
Oh my!
The living Stokes!
Another bigwig!
Stokes is a very famous mathematician and mechanic in modern scientific history, born in Ireland but spent most of his time in the UK.
The most famous theorem in line integrals, "Stokes’ formula," was derived by him.
In addition, he shared the naming rights of the Navier-Stokes equations with the Gaul scientist C·L·M·H·Navier, which is the well-known N-S equations.
Students studying fluid mechanics should be deeply influenced by it as well.
Solving the statistical solution of this equation set is the central issue of the turbulence theory, known as the "last puzzle of classical physics."
At the same time, its smooth solution and existence have also been set as one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems by the Clay Mathematics Institute.
By the way.
The recently popular God Wei, Wei Dongyi, on the internet, is also researching N-S equations.
Stokes’s father passed away early due to illness, and Stokes went to study in the UK at the age of 16, with his tuition at Pembroke College supported by the University of Cambridge.
In 1849, Stokes was appointed as a mathematics professor at the University of Cambridge, quickly rising to become the Lucas Mathematics Professor—a position once held by Little Niu and Barrow.
Stokes held the Lucas Professorship for as long as 50 years and later served as Secretary and President of the Royal Society.
He was the second person after Little Niu to hold all three positions simultaneously.
According to the normal historical trajectory.
Stokes would meet Maxwell one and a half years later, and they would hit it off, with Maxwell later applying for Stokes’s lectureship.
However, now with the appearance of Xu Yun, history once again made a slight shift.
But this is normal.
At this time, the period is one of flourishing talent in the modern scientific community, with many talents studying or working at the University of Cambridge.
Therefore, Xu Yun encountering a future bigwig like Stokes is not very surprising.
In the future, as time passes, he is destined to encounter more historical figures.
In fact, if he is intentional about it...
Sixty kilometers away in London, Mr. Ma and his wife Yan Ni are preparing to move to 28 Dean Street.
However, Xu Yun doesn’t know that.
Currently, Stokes’s life isn’t easy.
For better understanding, a brief introduction to the various colleges of the University of Cambridge is provided here:
Many people, upon seeing the word "college," might instinctively associate it with the modern format of colleges.
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