The Foundations of Mechanics and Thermodynamics - Selected Papers (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1974)

German scholars, against odds now not only forgotten but also hard to imagine, were striving to revivify the life of the mind which the mental and physical barbarity preached and practised by the -isms and -acies of 1933-1946 had all but eradicated. Thinking that among the disciples of these elders, restorers rather than progressives, I might find a student or two who would wish to master new mathematics but grasp it and use it with the wholeness of earlier times, in 1952 I wrote to Mr. HAMEL, one of the few then remaining mathematicians from the classical mould, to ask him to name some young men fit to study for the doc torate in The Graduate Institute for Applied Mathematics at Indiana University, flourishing at that time though soon to be destroyed by the jealous ambition of the local, stereotyped pure. Having just retired from the Technische Universitat in Charlottenburg, he passed my inquiry on to Mr. SZABO, in whose institute there NOLL was then an assistant. Although Mr."

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag
Country of origin:	Germany
Release date:	November 2011
First published:	1974
Authors:	W. Noll
Preface by:	C. Truesdell
Dimensions:	244 x 170 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	326
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1974
ISBN-13:	978-3-642-65819-8
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Classical mechanics > General Promotions
LSN:	3-642-65819-9
Barcode:	9783642658198

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