The following books and papers contain more information about George Green's works.

1. George Green – Miller, Mathematician and Physicist
2. N M Ferrers (ed) Collected Papers of George Green, London 1871, reprinted Chelsea Publishing Co, NY, 1970
3. H Gwynedd Green 'A Biography of George Green' Studies and Essays in the History of Science and Learning M Ashley Montague (ed) (Schuman, New York, 1945: out of print) 545-94
4. D M Cannell George Green, Mathematician and Physicist: The Background to his Life and Work (Athlone, London and Atlantic Highlands, NJ), 1993: out of print)
5. D M Cannell George Green, Mathematician and Physicist: The Background to his Life and Work (SIAM, Philadelphia), 2001
6. D M Cannell and N J Lord, 'George Green, Mathematician and Physicist 1793-1841' Mathematical Gazette 66 1993 26-51
7. J Gray 'There was a jolly miller' The New Scientist 139 1993 24-27
8. I Grattan-Guiness 'Why did George Green write his Essay of 1828 on Electricity and Magnetism?' American Mathematical Monthly 102 1995 387-396
9. Julian Schwinger 'The Greening of Quantum Field Theory: George and I' University of Nottingham Gazette Autumn 1993
10. Freeman Dyson 'Homage to George Green: How Physics looked in the Nineteen-Forties' University of Nottingham Gazette Autumn 1993 (full version)
11. Freeman Dyson 'George Green and Physics' Physics World 6 No 8 August 1993 33-38(edited version of above paper)
12. P M Harman (ed) Wranglers and Physicists: Studies in Cambridge Physics in the Nineteenth Century, Manchester University Press 1985
13. L J Challis 'George Green, Miller, Mathematician and Physicist' Mathematical Spectrum, 20 1987/88 no 2 45-52
14. J E Farina, 'The Work and Significance of George Green, the Miller Mathematician, 1793-1841' The Institute of Mathematics and its Applications 12 no 4 1976 98-105
15. G J Whitrow 'George Green (1793-1841): A Pioneer of Modern Mathematical Physics and its Methodology' Annali dell Instituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza du Firenze Anno IX, 1984 Fascicolo 2
16. Yu A Lyubimov 'George Green: his life and works' Uspekhi Fizicheskikh Nauk 164(1) 1994 1105-117 and Physics-Uspekhi 37(1) 1994 97-109 (English translation)
17. Mary Cannell and Ioan James 'Due Matematici Inglesi' G Green and J J Sylvester Lettera Pristem 13 Settembre 1994, 4-15
18. T Archibald 'Connectivity and smoke-rings: Green's second identity in its first fifty years', Mathematics Magazine 62 1984 219-232
19. G Barton Elements of Green's functions and propagation: potentials, diffusion and waves, Oxford UP, 1991
20. J Dieudonné History of functional analysis, North-Holland, 1981
21. C H Stolze 'A history of the divergence theorem', Historia Mathematica 5 1978 437-42
22. I Todhunter and K Pearson, A history of the elasticity and strength of materials, vol I,1886 Cambridge UP
23. G F Roach 'Green's Functions', 2nd ed, Cambridge UP, 1982
24. See also entries in Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Supp 197-16, Dictionary of National Biography; Encyclopaedia Britannica
25. C. Neumann, Allegemeine Lösung des Problemes über den stationärer Temperaturzustand eienes homogenen Körpers welcher von irgend zwei nichtconcentrischen Kugelflächen begrenzt wird, Leipzig Halle 1862, (the first named reference to Green's functions).

The published biographies of Green, and which concentrate on his personal life and circumstances, are:

1. George Green – Miller, Mathematician and Physicist
2. George Green, Mathematician and Physicist, 1793-1841: The Background to his Life and Work, D M Cannell, Athlone Press, London, 1993. ISBN 0 485 11433X £35 288pp and illustrations, Atlantic Highlands, NJ
3. George Green, Mathematician and Physicist, 1793-1841: The Background to his Life and Work, D M Cannell, (SIAM, Philadelphia), 2001 ISBN 0-89871-463-X $70 316pp and illustrations, SIAM, Philadelphia.
4. George Green, Miller and Mathematician, 1793-1841, D M Cannell, Nottingham Castle Museum. Available from Green's Mill Shop.

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