A History of the Theory of Elasticity and of the Strength of Materials
From Galilei to the Present Time

Published between 1886 and 1893, this three-part work traces the mathematical understanding of elasticity from Galileo to Lord Kelvin.

Isaac Todhunter (Author), Karl Pearson (Edited by)

9781108070423, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 20 March 2014

950 pages, 6 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 5.4 cm, 1.18 kg

A distinguished mathematician and notable university teacher, Isaac Todhunter (1820–84) became known for the successful textbooks he produced as well as for a work ethic that was extraordinary, even by Victorian standards. A scholar who read all the major European languages, Todhunter was an open-minded man who admired George Boole and helped introduce the moral science examination at Cambridge. His many gifts enabled him to produce the histories of mathematical subjects which form his lasting memorial. First published between 1886 and 1893, the present work was the last of these. Edited and completed after Todhunter's death by Karl Pearson (1857–1936), another extraordinary man who pioneered modern statistics, these volumes trace the mathematical understanding of elasticity from the seventeenth to the late nineteenth century. Volume 1 (1886) begins with Galileo Galilei and extends to the researches of Saint-Venant up to 1850.

Preface
1. The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
2. Miscellaneous investigations between the years 1800 and 1822
3. Miscellaneous researches 1820–30, Navier, Germain, Savart, Pagani, and others
4. Poisson
5. Cauchy
6. Miscellaneous researches of the decade, 1830–40
7. Lamé and Clapeyron, Lamé
8. Miscellaneous researches of the decade 1840–50, including those of Blanchet, Stokes, Wertheim and Haughton
9. Saint-Venant's researches before 1850
Appendix
Index.

Subject Areas: History of mathematics [PBX]