Continuum Mechanics Through the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Historical Perspectives from John Bernoulli (1727) to Ernst Hellinger (1914) /

• Main Author: Maugin, Gérard A. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Solid Mechanics and Its Applications, 214
• Subjects: Engineering.; History.; Mathematical analysis.; Analysis (Mathematics).; Mechanics.; Continuum mechanics.; Continuum Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials.; Analysis.; History of Science.

Conceived as a series of more or less autonomous essays, the present book critically exposes the initial developments of continuum thermo-mechanics in a post Newtonian period extending from the creative works of the Bernoullis to the First World war, i.e., roughly during first the “Age of reason” an...