CLIFFORD TRUESDELL

'Clifford Ambrose Truesdell III', (February 18, 1919 – January 14, 2000) was an American mathematician, natural philosopher, historian of mathematics, and polemicist.
Truesdell was born in America, Los Angeles. From 1961 until his retirement in 1989 he was professor of rational mechanics at John Hopkins University in Baltimore ^[1][2]. He was the advisor of Walter Noll who contributed decisevely to foundational rational mechanics. Rational mechanics's aim is to construct a full mathematic model for treating (continuous) mechanical phenomena^[3]. Truesdell founded (in 1957), and was editor-in-chief of, the journal "Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis," and the journal "Archive for the History of Exact Sciences," which were unusual in several ways. Following Truesdell's criticisms of awkward style in scientific writing (to be found on "A Comment on Scientific Writing" see ref. 1), the journal accepted papers in English, French, German, or Latin.

Contents

some works by Clifford Truesdell

References

External links

some works by Clifford Truesdell

-An Idiot's Fugitive Essays on Science, Springer-Verlag, 1984.
-a first course in rational continuum mechanics,academic press
-The kinematics of vorticity, 1959
-Rational thermodynamics,McGraw-Hill
-The elements of continuum mechanics, springer-verlag
-The Tragicomical History of Thermodynamics, 1822-1854. ISBN 0387904034. Here is a review by Stuart Antman.
-Great Scientists of Old As Heretics in "the Scientific Method". ISBN 0813911346.
-classical field theories of mechanics, with Toupin,volume III/1 of handbuch der physik edited by Flugge
-non-linear field theories of mechanics, with Walter Noll,volume III/3 of handbuch der physik edited by Flugge

References

1. Remembering Clifford Truesdell, from Turin's Accademia delle Scienze
2. Memories of Clifford Truesdell, by Bernard Coleman, from Rutgers University,
3. Walter Noll, The Genesis of Truesdell's Nonlinear Field Theories of Mechanics, Journal of Elasticity, Volume 70, Numbers 1-3, 2003 , pp. 23-30(8), freely available here.

External links

★ Memorial by Bernard Coleman

★ acid humor

★ The Scientific Life and Influence of Clifford Ambrose Truesdell III by J.M. Ball and R.D. James, editors, Arch. Rational Mech. Anal. 161 (2002) 1–26.