Originally Posted by Mac the Knife
There seem to be two
Navier-Stokes and Napier-Stokes
Are they different or the same or what?
The main difference is that the first version was spelled correctly.
There was a great scientist called
John Napier (like a great many very clever people, and the majority of inventors, he was Scottish), he was responsible for a lot of the mathematical theory behind Logarithms, and also for the original theory behind spherical trigonometry. He could therefore be said to have had a great deal of influence upon aviation - but a different bit, and so far as I know had nothing to do with anybody called Stokes. He also predicted the Apocalypse would take place between 1688 and 1700, so we can at-least be thankful that nobody's perfect!
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