Tuhia he haere tonu mo tenei whitianga - He akonga a Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, Gabriel Lamé me Augustin-Louis Cauchy Bjerknes i mahi mo te toenga o tona oranga i te waahanga o te hydrodynamics. I whakamatau ia ki te whakamarama i te hiko hiko o James Clerk Maxwell ma nga whakataurite hydrodynamical me te mea ano i whakaarohia e ia he whakamarama miihini mo te taumaha. Ahakoa kihai i angitu tana whakamātau ki te whakamārama i aua mea katoa, he mea nui ōna kitenga i roto i te mara o te hydrodynamics. I whakaaturia ana whakamātautau i te Whakaaturanga o te Hiko o te Ao tuatahi
i Paris i rere mai i te Akuhata 15, 1881 tae noa ki te Noema 15, 1881 i te Palais de l'Industrie i runga i te Champs-Élysées me te hui taiao Scandinavian i Stockholm.