Continuum Mechanics Through the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

From the book reviews: "In this very interesting book, the author analyzes the significant contributions of different European scientists to the field of continuum mechanics, starting from John Bernoulli in the 18th century to Hellinger at the beginning of the 20th century. ... the author ensures the possibility to different possible readers, specialists or non-specialists of this field, to be acquainted with the progress of scientific ideas along the past centuries." (Alain Brillard, zbMATH, Vol. 1303, 2015)

• 1 General Introduction: About the Contents and Form of this Book.- 2 A Glimpse at the Eighteenth Century: From John Bernoulli to Lagrange.- 3 What Happened on September 30, 1822, and What Were its Implications for the Future of Continuum Mechanics?.- 4 Piola and Kirchhoff: On Changes of Configurations.- 5 Duhamel’s Pioneering Work in Thermo-elasticity and Its Legacy.- 6 From Cauchy to Boussinesq via Barré de Saint-Venant.- 7 Helmholtz Interpreted and Applied by Duhem.- 8 About the Cosserats’ Book of 1909.- 9 Caratheodory: Thermodynamics and Topology.- 10 On Duhem’s Energetics or General Thermodynamics.- 11 A Course of Continuum Mechanics at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century (Volume III of Appell’s Treatise on Rational Mechanics).- 12 A Successful Attempt at a Synthetic View of Continuum Mechanics on the Eve of WWI: Hellinger’s Article in the German Encyclopaedia of Mathematics.- 13 Epilogue.- Retrospective: A Gallery of Portraits of the Main Actors.