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SUMMARY:How the Titanic Tragedy transformed Trinity: Turbulence Theory and
  Taylor in the Teens - Professor Colm-cille Caulfield
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DESCRIPTION:George Ingram Taylor (Trinity undergraduate 1905-1908\; electe
 d fellow 1910) was one of the most influential applied mathematicians of t
 he 20th century\, who made a huge number of contributions to fluid and sol
 id mechanics.\nThis talk will focus on the significance\, for both Cambrid
 ge Mathematics and the world at large\,  of the work presented in his Adam
 s Prize Essay of 1915  on “Turbulent Motion in Fluids”. Some of the ke
 y results presented in this essay\, the partial manuscript of which is hel
 d in the Trinity Library\, rely on  data taken by Taylor himself on the fi
 rst "Ice Patrol” cruise\, triggered by the tragedy of the sinking of the
  Titanic. The essay was actually written when Taylor was participating in 
 the first world war effort designing aircraft at Farnborough for the precu
 rsor of the Royal Air Force\, and the talk will also consider the lasting 
 influence on applied mathematics of Taylor’s philosophical approach to r
 esearch.
LOCATION:Winstanley Lecture Theatre\, Trinity College
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