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Clifford Truesdell

December 17, 2023

Clifford Ambrose Truesdell III (February 18, 1919 – January 14, 2000) was an American mathematician, natural philosopher, and historian of science.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Clifford Truesdell
Born
Clifford Ambrose Truesdell III

(1919-02-18)February 18, 1919
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
DiedJanuary 14, 2000(2000-01-14) (aged 80)
Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
Natural philosophy
History of science
Doctoral advisorSolomon Lefschetz
Harry Bateman
Doctoral studentsWalter Noll

Life edit

Truesdell was born in Los Angeles, California. After high school, he spent two years in Europe learning French, German, and Italian, and improving his Latin and Greek. His linguistic skills stood him in good stead in his later historical investigations. At Caltech he was deeply influenced by the teaching of Harry Bateman. In particular, a course in partial differential equations "taught me the difference between an ordinary good teacher and a great mathematician, and after that I never cared what grade I got in anything."[7] He obtained a B.Sc. in mathematics and physics in 1941, and an MSc. in mathematics in 1942.

In 1943, he completed a Ph.D. in mathematics at Princeton University. For the rest of the decade, the U.S. Navy employed him to do mechanics research.

Truesdell taught at Indiana University 1950–61, where his students included James Serrin, Jerald Ericksen, and Walter Noll. From 1961 until his retirement in 1989, Truesdell was professor of rational mechanics at Johns Hopkins University.[8][9] He and Noll contributed to foundational rational mechanics, whose aim is to construct a mathematical model for treating (continuous) mechanical phenomena.[10]

Truesdell was the founder and editor-in-chief of the journals Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis and Archive for History of Exact Sciences, which were unusual in several ways. Following Truesdell's criticisms of awkward style in scientific writing,[11] the journal accepted papers in English, French, German, and Latin.

In addition to his original work in mechanics, Truesdell was a major historian of science and mathematics, editing or co-editing six volumes of the collected works of Leonhard Euler.

Criticism of Truesdell's support of rational thermodynamics edit

Bernard Lavenda opined that, if there is something rational in rational thermodynamics, it is well-hidden.[12][page needed] Ingo Müller said the 'rational' theory failed even in fields where it assumed expertise: "More damage was suffered by rational thermodynamics when it was found that the theory could not be applied to non-Newtonian fluids."[13][page needed]

Truesdell become also famous by his attacks on Lars Onsager (Nobel Prize 1968 for nonequilibrium thermodynamics) and related scientists. Ingo Müller reports:[13][page needed]

Truesdell’s outspoken partisanship of rational thermodynamics and his flamboyant style fueled some lively controversies between adherents of TIP [thermodynamics of irreversible processes] and the protagonists of rational thermodynamics, chiefly Truesdell himself. His attacks on Onsagerism were advanced with much satirical verve, that makes them fun to read for those who were not targeted. However, the defenders of TIP tried their best to pay Truesdell back in his own coin. Woods pointed out some awkward features of rational thermodynamics in a paper entitled “The bogus axioms of continuum mechanics.”57 And Ronald Samuel Rivlin (1915–2005) delighted a worldwide audience with a frequently repeated humorous lecture under the title “On red herrings and other sundry unidentified fish in modern continuum mechanics.

An article written by Müller on the frame dependence of stress and heat flux[14] was later refuted by Truesdell. (Correction of two errors in the kinetic theory of gases which have been used to cast unfounded doubt upon the principle of material frame-indifference.[clarification needed])[15]

Awards edit

Selected writings edit

  • An Essay towards a Unified Theory of Special Functions, Princeton University Press, 1948.[17]
  • A First Course in Rational Continuum Mechanics, Academic Press, 1977.[18]
  • Vorticity and the Thermodynamic State in a Gas Flow, Gauthier-Villars, 1952.[19]
  • The Kinematics of Vorticity, Indiana University Press, 1954.[20]
  • Rational fluid mechanics, 1687–1765, Orell Füssil, 1954.[21]
  • Rational Thermodynamics, McGraw-Hill, 1969.
  • The Elements of Continuum Mechanics, Springer-Verlag.
  • The Tragicomical History of Thermodynamics, 1822-1854. ISBN 0-387-90403-4. see [22] and another by I. Grattan-Guinness.
  • Great Scientists of Old As Heretics in "the Scientific Method", University of Virginia Press, 1987. ISBN 0-8139-1134-6.
  • Classical Field Theories of Mechanics, with Toupin, vol. III/1 of Handbuch der Physik edited by Siegfried Flügge.
  • "Non-linear Field Theories of Mechanics", with Walter Noll, volume III/3 of Handbuch der Physik edited by Siegfried Flügge.
  • An Introduction to the Mechanics of Fluids, with K. R. Rajagopal, Birkhauser, Boston, 1999.
  • Essays in the History of Mechanics, Springer-Verlag, 1968.

References edit

  1. ^ Clifford Truesdell at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ^ Capriz, G. (2000). "Obituary – Clifford Ambrose Truesdell (1919–2000)". Meccanica. 35 (5): 463–466. doi:10.1023/A:1010368106989. S2CID 115855559.
  3. ^ Giusti, E. (2003). "Clifford Truesdell (1919–2000), Historian of Mathematics". Journal of Elasticity. 70 (1–3): 15–22. doi:10.1023/B:ELAS.0000005636.90348.2b.
  4. ^ Serrin, J. (2005). "An Appreciation of Clifford Truesdell". The Rational Spirit in Modern Continuum Mechanics. pp. 31–38. doi:10.1007/1-4020-2308-1_4. ISBN 1-4020-1828-2. S2CID 121586030.
  5. ^ Speiser, D. (2003). "Clifford A. Truesdell's Contributions to the Euler and the Bernoulli Edition". Journal of Elasticity. 70 (1–3): 39–53. doi:10.1023/B:ELAS.0000005663.42447.08.
  6. ^ Ball, J. M.; James, R. D. (2002). "The Scientific Life and Influence of Clifford Ambrose Truesdell III" (PDF). Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis. 161 (1): 1–26. Bibcode:2002ArRMA.161....1B. doi:10.1007/s002050100178. S2CID 123253633.
  7. ^ Truesdell, C. (1984). An Idiot's Fugitive Essays on Science: Methods, Criticism, Training, Circumstances. New York: Springer-Verlag. p. 422. ISBN 0-387-90703-3.
  8. ^ Remembering Clifford Truesdell 2007-04-02 at the Wayback Machine, from Turin's Accademia delle Scienze
  9. ^ Coleman, B. D. (2003). "Memories of Clifford Truesdell". Journal of Elasticity. 70 (1–3): 1–3. doi:10.1023/B:ELAS.0000005576.29772.a7.
  10. ^ Noll, W. (2003). "The Genesis of Truesdell's Nonlinear Field Theories of Mechanics". Journal of Elasticity. 70 (1–3): 23–30. doi:10.1023/B:ELAS.0000005581.36943.75. S2CID 125471624.
  11. ^ See "A Comment on Scientific Writing" in Truesdell (1984).
  12. ^ Lavenda, Bernard (1978). Thermodynamics of Irreversible Processes. Macmillan Press.
  13. ^ a b Müller, Ingo (2007). A History of Thermodynamics: the Doctrine of Energy and Entropy. Springer.
  14. ^ Müller, Ingo (1972). "On the frame dependence of stress and heat flux". Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis. 45 (4): 241–250. Bibcode:1972ArRMA..45..241M. doi:10.1007/BF00251375. S2CID 124937687.
  15. ^ Truesdell, Clifford (1976). "Correction of two errors in the kinetic theory of gases which have been used to cast unfounded doubt upon the principle of material frame-indifference". Meccanica. 11 (4): 196–199. Bibcode:1976Mecc...11..196T. doi:10.1007/BF02128292. S2CID 122191983.
  16. ^ "Honorary doctorates - Uppsala University, Sweden".
  17. ^ Friedman, Bernard (1948). "Review: An essay towards a unified theory of special functions, by C. Truesdell" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 56 (3): 268–269. doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1950-09382-3.
  18. ^ Bloom, Frederick (1981). "Review: A first course in rational continuum mechanics, by C. Truesdell" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.). 5 (3): 359–364. doi:10.1090/s0273-0979-1981-14957-0.
  19. ^ McVittie, G. C. (1954). "Review: Vorticity and the thermodynamic state in a gas flow, by C. Truesdell" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 60 (5): 493–494. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1954-09843-9.
  20. ^ McVittie, G. C. (1955). "Review: The kinematics of vorticity, by C. Truesdell" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 61 (4): 356–358. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1955-09945-2.
  21. ^ Struik, D. J. (1955). "Review: Rational fluid mechanics, 1687–1765, by C. Truesdell" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 61 (5): 451–454. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1955-09952-x.
  22. ^ Channell, D. F.; Truesdell, C. (1982). "The Tragicomical History of Thermodynamics, 1822-1854". Technology and Culture. 23 (1): 104–106. doi:10.2307/3104457. JSTOR 3104457.

Further reading edit

  • Becchi, Antonio; Corradi, Massimo; Foce, Federico; Pedemonte, Orietta, eds. (2003), Essays on the History of Mechanics: In Memory of Clifford Ambrose Truesdell and Edoardo Benvenuto, Basel–Boston–Berlin: Birkhäuser Verlag, p. 256, doi:10.1007/978-3-0348-8091-6, ISBN 3-7643-1476-1, MR 2052763.
  • Buchwald, Jed Z.; Cohen, I. Bernard (March 2001), "Eloge: Clifford Truesdell, 1919-2000", Isis, 92 (1): 123–125, doi:10.1086/385042, JSTOR 237329, S2CID 144157290.
  • Ignatieff, Yurie A.; Heike Willig (1999). Clifford Truesdell: Eine wissenschaftliche Biographie des Dichters, Mathematikers und Naturphilosophen. Aachen: Shaker Verlag. ISBN 3-8265-4804-3.

External links edit

December 17, 2023
clifford, truesdell, clifford, ambrose, truesdell, february, 1919, january, 2000, american, mathematician, natural, philosopher, historian, science, bornclifford, ambrose, truesdell, 1919, february, 1919los, angeles, california, diedjanuary, 2000, 2000, aged, . Clifford Ambrose Truesdell III February 18 1919 January 14 2000 was an American mathematician natural philosopher and historian of science 1 2 3 4 5 6 Clifford TruesdellBornClifford Ambrose Truesdell III 1919 02 18 February 18 1919Los Angeles California U S DiedJanuary 14 2000 2000 01 14 aged 80 Baltimore Maryland U S Scientific careerFieldsMathematicsNatural philosophyHistory of scienceDoctoral advisorSolomon LefschetzHarry BatemanDoctoral studentsWalter Noll Contents 1 Life 2 Criticism of Truesdell s support of rational thermodynamics 3 Awards 4 Selected writings 5 References 6 Further reading 7 External linksLife editTruesdell was born in Los Angeles California After high school he spent two years in Europe learning French German and Italian and improving his Latin and Greek His linguistic skills stood him in good stead in his later historical investigations At Caltech he was deeply influenced by the teaching of Harry Bateman In particular a course in partial differential equations taught me the difference between an ordinary good teacher and a great mathematician and after that I never cared what grade I got in anything 7 He obtained a B Sc in mathematics and physics in 1941 and an MSc in mathematics in 1942 In 1943 he completed a Ph D in mathematics at Princeton University For the rest of the decade the U S Navy employed him to do mechanics research Truesdell taught at Indiana University 1950 61 where his students included James Serrin Jerald Ericksen and Walter Noll From 1961 until his retirement in 1989 Truesdell was professor of rational mechanics at Johns Hopkins University 8 9 He and Noll contributed to foundational rational mechanics whose aim is to construct a mathematical model for treating continuous mechanical phenomena 10 Truesdell was the founder and editor in chief of the journals Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis and Archive for History of Exact Sciences which were unusual in several ways Following Truesdell s criticisms of awkward style in scientific writing 11 the journal accepted papers in English French German and Latin In addition to his original work in mechanics Truesdell was a major historian of science and mathematics editing or co editing six volumes of the collected works of Leonhard Euler Criticism of Truesdell s support of rational thermodynamics editThe neutrality of this section is disputed Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page Please do not remove this message until conditions to do so are met April 2012 Learn how and when to remove this template message Bernard Lavenda opined that if there is something rational in rational thermodynamics it is well hidden 12 page needed Ingo Muller said the rational theory failed even in fields where it assumed expertise More damage was suffered by rational thermodynamics when it was found that the theory could not be applied to non Newtonian fluids 13 page needed Truesdell become also famous by his attacks on Lars Onsager Nobel Prize 1968 for nonequilibrium thermodynamics and related scientists Ingo Muller reports 13 page needed Truesdell s outspoken partisanship of rational thermodynamics and his flamboyant style fueled some lively controversies between adherents of TIP thermodynamics of irreversible processes and the protagonists of rational thermodynamics chiefly Truesdell himself His attacks on Onsagerism were advanced with much satirical verve that makes them fun to read for those who were not targeted However the defenders of TIP tried their best to pay Truesdell back in his own coin Woods pointed out some awkward features of rational thermodynamics in a paper entitled The bogus axioms of continuum mechanics 57 And Ronald Samuel Rivlin 1915 2005 delighted a worldwide audience with a frequently repeated humorous lecture under the title On red herrings and other sundry unidentified fish in modern continuum mechanics An article written by Muller on the frame dependence of stress and heat flux 14 was later refuted by Truesdell Correction of two errors in the kinetic theory of gases which have been used to cast unfounded doubt upon the principle of material frame indifference clarification needed 15 Awards editBingham Medal of the Society of Rheology 1963 Birkhoff Prize of the American Mathematical Society and Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics 1978 Honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Mathematics and Science at Uppsala University Sweden 1979 16 Theodore von Karman Medal 1996 Selected writings editAn Essay towards a Unified Theory of Special Functions Princeton University Press 1948 17 A First Course in Rational Continuum Mechanics Academic Press 1977 18 Vorticity and the Thermodynamic State in a Gas Flow Gauthier Villars 1952 19 The Kinematics of Vorticity Indiana University Press 1954 20 Rational fluid mechanics 1687 1765 Orell Fussil 1954 21 Rational Thermodynamics McGraw Hill 1969 The Elements of Continuum Mechanics Springer Verlag The Tragicomical History of Thermodynamics 1822 1854 ISBN 0 387 90403 4 see 22 and another by I Grattan Guinness Great Scientists of Old As Heretics in the Scientific Method University of Virginia Press 1987 ISBN 0 8139 1134 6 Classical Field Theories of Mechanics with Toupin vol III 1 of Handbuch der Physik edited by Siegfried Flugge Non linear Field Theories of Mechanics with Walter Noll volume III 3 of Handbuch der Physik edited by Siegfried Flugge An Introduction to the Mechanics of Fluids with K R Rajagopal Birkhauser Boston 1999 Essays in the History of Mechanics Springer Verlag 1968 References edit Clifford Truesdell at the Mathematics Genealogy Project Capriz G 2000 Obituary Clifford Ambrose Truesdell 1919 2000 Meccanica 35 5 463 466 doi 10 1023 A 1010368106989 S2CID 115855559 Giusti E 2003 Clifford Truesdell 1919 2000 Historian of Mathematics Journal of Elasticity 70 1 3 15 22 doi 10 1023 B ELAS 0000005636 90348 2b Serrin J 2005 An Appreciation of Clifford Truesdell The Rational Spirit in Modern Continuum Mechanics pp 31 38 doi 10 1007 1 4020 2308 1 4 ISBN 1 4020 1828 2 S2CID 121586030 Speiser D 2003 Clifford A Truesdell s Contributions to the Euler and the Bernoulli Edition Journal of Elasticity 70 1 3 39 53 doi 10 1023 B ELAS 0000005663 42447 08 Ball J M James R D 2002 The Scientific Life and Influence of Clifford Ambrose Truesdell III PDF Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis 161 1 1 26 Bibcode 2002ArRMA 161 1B doi 10 1007 s002050100178 S2CID 123253633 Truesdell C 1984 An Idiot s Fugitive Essays on Science Methods Criticism Training Circumstances New York Springer Verlag p 422 ISBN 0 387 90703 3 Remembering Clifford Truesdell Archived 2007 04 02 at the Wayback Machine from Turin s Accademia delle Scienze Coleman B D 2003 Memories of Clifford Truesdell Journal of Elasticity 70 1 3 1 3 doi 10 1023 B ELAS 0000005576 29772 a7 Noll W 2003 The Genesis of Truesdell s Nonlinear Field Theories of Mechanics Journal of Elasticity 70 1 3 23 30 doi 10 1023 B ELAS 0000005581 36943 75 S2CID 125471624 See A Comment on Scientific Writing in Truesdell 1984 Lavenda Bernard 1978 Thermodynamics of Irreversible Processes Macmillan Press a b Muller Ingo 2007 A History of Thermodynamics the Doctrine of Energy and Entropy Springer Muller Ingo 1972 On the frame dependence of stress and heat flux Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis 45 4 241 250 Bibcode 1972ArRMA 45 241M doi 10 1007 BF00251375 S2CID 124937687 Truesdell Clifford 1976 Correction of two errors in the kinetic theory of gases which have been used to cast unfounded doubt upon the principle of material frame indifference Meccanica 11 4 196 199 Bibcode 1976Mecc 11 196T doi 10 1007 BF02128292 S2CID 122191983 Honorary doctorates Uppsala University Sweden Friedman Bernard 1948 Review An essay towards a unified theory of special functions by C Truesdell PDF Bull Amer Math Soc 56 3 268 269 doi 10 1090 S0002 9904 1950 09382 3 Bloom Frederick 1981 Review A first course in rational continuum mechanics by C Truesdell PDF Bull Amer Math Soc N S 5 3 359 364 doi 10 1090 s0273 0979 1981 14957 0 McVittie G C 1954 Review Vorticity and the thermodynamic state in a gas flow by C Truesdell PDF Bull Amer Math Soc 60 5 493 494 doi 10 1090 s0002 9904 1954 09843 9 McVittie G C 1955 Review The kinematics of vorticity by C Truesdell PDF Bull Amer Math Soc 61 4 356 358 doi 10 1090 s0002 9904 1955 09945 2 Struik D J 1955 Review Rational fluid mechanics 1687 1765 by C Truesdell PDF Bull Amer Math Soc 61 5 451 454 doi 10 1090 s0002 9904 1955 09952 x Channell D F Truesdell C 1982 The Tragicomical History of Thermodynamics 1822 1854 Technology and Culture 23 1 104 106 doi 10 2307 3104457 JSTOR 3104457 Further reading editBecchi Antonio Corradi Massimo Foce Federico Pedemonte Orietta eds 2003 Essays on the History of Mechanics In Memory of Clifford Ambrose Truesdell and Edoardo Benvenuto Basel Boston Berlin Birkhauser Verlag p 256 doi 10 1007 978 3 0348 8091 6 ISBN 3 7643 1476 1 MR 2052763 Buchwald Jed Z Cohen I Bernard March 2001 Eloge Clifford Truesdell 1919 2000 Isis 92 1 123 125 doi 10 1086 385042 JSTOR 237329 S2CID 144157290 Ignatieff Yurie A Heike Willig 1999 Clifford Truesdell Eine wissenschaftliche Biographie des Dichters Mathematikers und Naturphilosophen Aachen Shaker Verlag ISBN 3 8265 4804 3 External links editO Connor John J Robertson Edmund F Clifford Truesdell MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive University of St Andrews Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Clifford Truesdell amp oldid 1189392474, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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