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Nature 442, 28-29 (6 July 2006) | doi:10.1038/442028a; Published online 5 July 2006
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A turbulent history
Roddam Narasimha1
BOOK REVIEWED-Worlds of Flow: A History of Hydrodynamics from the Bernoullis to Prandtl
by Olivier Darrigol
Oxford University Press: 2006. 376 pp. £35, $74.50
The continuing fascination of hydrodynamics — or its modern, more inclusive offspring fluid dynamics — is due to the fact that many phenomena (such as turbulent flows) that we can observe with our unaided senses pose deep scientific problems that have not been solved to this day. Those unaided observations have led artists and scientists to wonder at the beauty, majesty and waywardness of flows over the centuries.
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