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The fascinating concept of the Green’s function is due to the insight and intuition of George Green (1793–1841), an English mathematician, whose original work was unappreciated for nearly all of his life — largely due to his unusual methodology, George Green was born in 1793 and was 44 years old when he received his degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1837 at Cambridge. His age and his inability to submit to the “systematic training” worked against him and few seemed to realize his remarkable ability at the time. Two years later in 1839 he was elected a Fellow of the College but left almost immediately because of poor health and returned to his home where he died by 1841, a heavy loss indeed to the world of mathematics. His first paper had been published in 1828, five years before beginning formal study. He was entirely self-taught and faced great difficulty in publishing his work.
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Bellman, R., Adomian, G. (1985). Green’s Functions. In: Partial Differential Equations. Mathematics and Its Applications, vol 15. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5209-6_15
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