Continuum Mechanics Through the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries  / Maugin, Gerard A.;  -- Cham :Springer International Publishing :;Imprint: Springer,2014.

xi, 269 p. :

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 Duhamelâ_Ts 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 Cosseratsâ_T Book of 1909 -- 9 Caratheodory: Thermodynamics and Topology -- 10 On Duhemâ_Ts Energetics or General Thermodynamics -- 11 A Course of Continuum Mechanics at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century (Volume III of Appellâ_Ts Treatise on Rational Mechanics) -- 12 A Successful Attempt at a Synthetic View of Continuum Mechanics on the Eve of WWI: Hellingerâ_Ts Article in the German Encyclopaedia of Mathematics -- 13 Epilogue.- Retrospective: A Gallery of Portraits of the Main Actors.    .

ISBN 9783319053745