The Rational Spirit in Modern Continuum Mechanics Essays and Papers Dedicated to the Memory of Clifford Ambrose Truesdell III /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Man, Chi-Sing (Editor), Fosdick, Roger L. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2004.
• Subjects: Engineering.; History.; Mechanics.; Continuum mechanics.; Materials science.; Continuum Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials.; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials.; History, general.

Through his voluminous and in?uential writings, editorial activities, organi- tional leadership, intellectual acumen, and strong sense of history, Clifford - brose Truesdell III (1919–2000) was the main architect for the renaissance of - tional continuum mechanics since the middle of the twentieth c...