1. Background This textbook is an introduction to and exploration of a number of core topics
in the field of applied mechanics. Mechanics, in both its theoretical and applied contexts, is …

This book is the first to be devoted to the history of analytic function theory since Brill and
Noether published their Bericht über die Entwicklung der Theorie der algebraischen …

This book gives an analysis of Hertz's posthumously published Principles of Mechanics in its
philosophical, physical and mathematical context. In a period of heated debates about the …

Niccolo Fontana (1499–1557), better known as Tartaglia, is one of a loosely connected
group of Italian scientists living between the middle of the fifteenth and the end of the …

We apply Benacerraf's distinction between mathematical ontology and mathematical
practice (or the structures mathematicians use in practice) to examine contrasting …

This book presents a history of differential equations, both ordinary and partial, as well as
the calculus of variations, from the origins of the subjects to around 1900. Topics treated …

Abstract In 1875 Berlin University hired Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (1824–1887) to fill its first
chair in theoretical physics. When he introduced his inaugural series of lectures that …

The idea of a canonical transformation emerged in 1837 in the course of Carl Jacobi's
researches in analytical dynamics. To understand Jacobi's moment of discovery it is …

Lie group analysis is applied to a core group model for sexually transmitted disease
formulated by Hadeler and Castillo-Chavez [Hadeler KP and Castillo-Chavez C, A core …

This paper is devoted to the rise of hypothetical thinking in the tradition of 19th century
rational mechanics in general, and to the roots of Carl Neumann's paper on the “Principles …