| 释义 |
Greenian, a. (n.)|ˈgriːnɪən|
[f. the name of the English mathematician George Green (1793–1841) + -ian.]
Greenian functions: a class of functions introduced by George Green, serving to represent the distribution of electricity on an ellipsoid.
1875Cayley Math. Papers (1896) IX. 393 In the present Annex, I in part reproduce Green's process for the integration of this equation by means of a series of functions, which are analogous to Laplace's Functions, and may be termed ‘Greenians’. Ibid. 394 These functions ϕ of the variables α, β,.., γ are in fact the Greenian Functions in question. |