Continuum Mechanics through the Ages - From the Renaissance to the Twentieth Century From Hydraulics to Plasticity /

• Main Author: Maugin, Gérard A. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Series: Solid Mechanics and Its Applications, 223
• Subjects: Engineering.; History.; Mathematical models.; Continuum physics.; Continuum mechanics.; Materials science.; Continuum Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials.; Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics.; Classical Continuum Physics.; Materials Science, general.; History of Science.

Mixing scientific, historic and socio-economic vision, this unique book complements two previously published volumes on the history of continuum mechanics from this distinguished author. In this volume, Gérard A. Maugin looks at the period from the renaissance to the twentieth century and he include...