An Idiot's Fugitive Essays On Science: Methods, Criticism, Training, Circumstances

Synopsis

Experience, Theory, And Experiment (1955) -- The Field Viewpoint In Classical Physics -- Modern Continuum Mechanics In Adolescence (1962) -- Purpose, Method, And Program Of Nonlinear Continuum Mechanics -- War, Socialism, And Quantum Mechanics -- The Tradition Of Elasticity -- Statistical Mechanics And Continuum Mechanics -- Our Debt To The French Tradition: Catastrophes And Our Search For Structure Today (1978, 1981) -- Draw From The Model And Imitate The Antique (1979) -- The Role Of Mathematics In Science As Exemplified By The Work Of The Bernoullis And Euler (1979, 1981) -- Conceptual Analysis -- A Comment On Scientific Writing (1954) -- Goldstein's Classical Mechanics (1950) -- Murnaghan's Finite Deformation Af An Elastic Solid (1952) Novozhilov's Foundations Of The Nonlinear Theory Of Elasticity (1953) -- Critical Problems In The History Of Science (1961) -- Dugas' Histoire De La Mecanique (1953) -- Jammer's Concepts Of Mass In Classical And Modern Physics (1963) -- Clagetts' The Science Of Mechanics In The Middle Ages (1961) -- Stevin's Works On Mechanics (1957) -- Dugas' La Mecanique Au Xvii Siecle (1956) -- Costabel's Leibniz And Dynamics (1975) -- John Bernoulli And L'hopital (1958) -- The Works Of James Bernoulli (1973) -- Daniel Bernoulli's Hydrodynamica (1960) -- Rouse & Ince's History Of Hydraulics (1959) -- Hankin's Jean D'alembert (1971) -- The Mathematical And Physical Papers Of G. G. Stokes (1966) -- Gillmor's Coulomb (1973) -- Timoshenko's History Of Stength Of Materials (1953) -- Szabo's Geschichte Der Mechanischen Prinzipien Und Ihrer Wichtigsten Anwendungen (1979) -- Genius Conquers And Despises The Establishment: Newton -- Genius Turns The Establishment Ot Profit: Euler -- The Establisment Stifles Genius: Herapath And Waterston (1968, 1982) Genius And The Establishment At A Polite Standstill In The Modern University: Bateman (1976, 1981) -- The Scholar's Workshop And Tools (1970,1976,1981) -- Has The Private University A Future: (1976) -- Is There A Philosophy Of Science? (1973) -- Suppesian Stews (1980/81) -- The Scholar: A Species Threatened By Professions (1972) -- The Computer: Ruin Of Science And Threat To Mankind (1979-1982) -- Of All And Of None (1964). C. Truesdell. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.