L. M. Milne-Thomson refers to Sir Lancelot Thomas Milne-Thomson, a prominent British mathematician and engineer known for his contributions to fluid dynamics and applied mathematics. He was particularly noted for his work in potential flow theory, which analyzes the behavior of inviscid (non-viscous) fluid flow.
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L. M. Milne-Thomson was an applied mathematician whose work connected finite differences, numerical tables and fluid mechanics. His 1933 textbook on finite differences grew from the techniques needed to construct mathematical tables; his Theoretical Hydrodynamics developed analytic methods for fluid motion.
The Milne-Thomson circle theorem gives a particularly useful link with complex analysis: introducing a circular boundary into a two-dimensional potential flow can be handled by a transformed complex potential. His textbooks made such methods available as reusable computational tools.[ref]
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Milne-Thomson/. Biography, finite-difference tables and hydrodynamics texts
