List of illustrations; Preface to the second edition; Preface; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction; In Memoriam: Mary Cannell; 1. Family Background; 2. George Green's Education; 3. Cambridge Interlude; 4. Bromley House Library and the Essay of 1828; 5. Sir Edward Bromhead; 6. The Publication of George Green's Further Investigations; 7. An Undergraduate at Cambridge; 8. A Fellowship at Caius College; 9. George Green's Family; 10. William Thomson and the Rediscovery of the Essay of 1828; 11. 'Honour in His Own Country'; Appendix I. The Mathematics of George Green by M. C. Thornley, formerly of the Mathematics Department, Nottingham Polytechnic; Appendix II. Mathematical Papers of George Green; Appendix IIIa. Account by William Tomlin, Esq.: 'Memoir of George Green, Esq.'; Appendix IIIb. Account by Sir E. Ffrench Bromhead; Appendix IVa. Green Family Tree; Appendix IVb. Butler Family Tree; Appendix IVc. Smith Family Tree; Appendix IVd. Tomlin Family Tree; Appendix Va. Time Chart of British Mathematicians and Men of Science; Appendix Vb. Time Chart of Other Mathematicians and Men of Science; Appendix VIa. The Greening of Quantum Field Theory: George and I by Professor Julian Schwinger; Appendix VIb. Homage to George Green: How Physics Looked in the Nineteen-Forties by Professor Freeman Dyson; Notes; References I. Biographical; References II. Scientific; Index.
