Clifford Truesdell
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| Clifford Ambrose Truesdell III | |
| Born | February 18, 1919 |
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| Died | January 14, 2000 (aged 80) |
| Nationality | USA |
| Fields | Mathematics Natural Philosophy Polemics |
Clifford Ambrose Truesdell III, (February 18, 1919 – January 14, 2000) was an American mathematician, natural philosopher, historian of science, and polemicist.
Truesdell was born in Los Angeles, California. From 1961 until his retirement in 1989 he was professor of rational mechanics at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore[1][2]. He was the advisor of Walter Noll who contributed to foundational rational mechanics. The aim of rational mechanics is to construct a full mathematic model for treating (continuous) mechanical phenomena[3]. Truesdell was the founder and editor-in-chief of the journals Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis and 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.
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[edit] Awards
- Euler Medal of the USSR Academy of Sciences, 1958 and 1983.
- Bingham Medal of the Society of Rheology, 19963
- Birkhoff Prize of the American Mathematical Society
- Theodore von Karman Medal, 1996
[edit] 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, 1954
- 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 Siegfried Flügge
- "Non-linear Field Theories of Mechanics", with Walter Noll, volume III/3 of Handbuch der Physik edited by Siegfried Flügge
[edit] References
- ^ Remembering Clifford Truesdell, from Turin's Accademia delle Scienze
- ^ Memories of Clifford Truesdell, by Bernard Coleman, from Rutgers University,
- ^ 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.
[edit] Further reading
- Antonio Becchi, Massimo Corradi, Federico Foce, Orietta Pedemonte (2003). Essays on the History of Mechanics: In Memory of Clifford Ambrose Truesdell and Edoardo Benvenuto. Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag. ISBN 3-7643-1476-1.
- Yurie A. Ignatieff ; Heike Willig (1999). Clifford Truesdell: Eine wissenschaftliche Biographie des Dichters, Mathematikers und Naturphilosophen. Aachen: Shaker Verlag. ISBN 3826548043.
[edit] 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.
