Department of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin, College Green, Dublin 2, Ireland.
Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci. 2020 Jun 26;378(2174):20190516. doi: 10.1098/rsta.2019.0516. Epub 2020 Jun 8.
George Gabriel Stokes spent most of his life at the University of Cambridge, where he undertook his undergraduate degree and later became Lucasian Professor of Mathematics and Master of Pembroke College. However, he spent the first 13 years of his life in Skreen, County Sligo, Ireland, a rural area right by the coastline, overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. As this paper will discuss, the time he spent there was short but its influence on him and his research was long reaching, with his childhood activities of walking by and bathing in the sea being credited for first piquing Stokes' interest in ocean waves, which he would go on to write papers about. More generally, it marked the beginning of an interest in fluid dynamics and a curious nature regarding natural phenomena in his surroundings. Stokes held a special affinity for the ocean for the rest of his life, constantly drawing inspiration for it in his mathematical and physical studies and referencing it in his correspondences. This commentary was written to celebrate Stokes' 200th birthday as part of the theme issue of . This article is part of the theme issue 'Stokes at 200 (Part 1)'.
乔治·加布里埃尔·斯托克斯（George Gabriel Stokes）的大部分时间都在剑桥大学度过，他在那里完成了本科学业，后来成为卢卡斯数学教授和彭布罗克学院院长。然而，他生命的前 13 年是在爱尔兰斯利戈郡的斯克林度过的，这是一个位于沿海的农村地区，俯瞰着大西洋。正如本文将要讨论的那样，他在那里的时间虽然短暂，但对他和他的研究产生了深远的影响，他儿时在海边散步和游泳的活动首先激发了斯托克斯对海浪的兴趣，他后来写了一些关于海浪的论文。更广泛地说，这标志着他对流体动力学的兴趣以及对周围自然现象的好奇心的开始。在他的余生中，斯托克斯对海洋有着特殊的亲和力，他在数学和物理研究中不断从海洋中汲取灵感，并在通信中提到海洋。这篇评论是为了庆祝斯托克斯 200 岁生日而写的，是《》特刊的一部分。本文是“纪念斯托克斯 200 周年（第 1 部分）”特刊的一部分。
