Continuum Mechanics Through the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Historical Perspectives from John Bernoulli (1727) to Ernst Hellinger (1914)
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1 General Introduction: About the Contents and Form of this Book
2 A Glimpse at the Eighteenth Century: From John Bernoulli to Lagrange 3 What Happened on September 30, 1822, and What Were its Implications for the Future of Continuum Mechanics? 4 Piola and Kirchhoff: On Changes of Configurations 5 Duhamel's Pioneering Work in Thermo-elasticity and Its Legacy 6 From Cauchy to Boussinesq via Barr? de Saint-Venant 7 Helmholtz Interpreted and Applied by Duhem 8 About the Cosserats' Book of 1909 9 Caratheodory: Thermodynamics and Topology 10 On Duhem's Energetics or General Thermodynamics 11 A Course of Continuum Mechanics at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century (Volume III of Appell's Treatise on Rational Mechanics) 12 A Successful Attempt at a Synthetic View of Continuum Mechanics on the Eve of WWI: Hellinger's Article in the German Encyclopaedia of Mathematics 13 EpilogueRetrospective: A Gallery of Portraits of the Main Actors
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:3319357921
ISBN13:9783319357928
Release Date:September 2016
Publisher:Springer
Length:269 Pages
Weight:0.88 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"
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