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An Idiot’s Fugitive Essays on Science

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    Chapter 1 Experience, Theory, and Experiment (1955)
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    Chapter 2 The Field Viewpoint in Classical Physics
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    Chapter 3 Modern Continuum Mechanics in Adolescence (1962)
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    Chapter 4 Purpose, Method, and Program of Nonlinear Continuum Mechanics
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    Chapter 5 War, Socialism, and Quantum Mechanics
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    Chapter 6 The Tradition of Elasticity
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    Chapter 7 Statistical Mechanics and Continuum Mechanics (1973, 1979)
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    Chapter 8 Our Debt to the French Tradition: “Catastrophes” and Our Search for Structure Today (1978, 1981)
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    Chapter 9 Draw from the Model and Imitate the Antique (1979)
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    Chapter 10 The Role of Mathematics in Science as Exemplified by the Work of the Bernoullis and Euler (1979, 1981)
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    Chapter 11 Conceptual Analysis
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    Chapter 12 A Comment on Scientific Writing (1954)
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    Chapter 13 Goldstein’s Classical Mechanics (1950)
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    Chapter 14 Murnaghan’s Finite Deformation of an Elastic Solid (1952)
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    Chapter 15 Novozhilov’s Foundations of the Nonlinear Theory of Elasticity (1953)
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    Chapter 16 Critical Problems in the History of Science (1961)
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    Chapter 17 Dugas’ Histoire de la Mécanique (1953)
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    Chapter 18 Jammer’s Concepts of Mass in Classical and Modern Physics (1963)
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    Chapter 19 Clagett’s the Science of Mechanics in the Middle Ages (1961)
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    Chapter 20 Stevin’s Works on Mechanics (1957)
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    Chapter 21 Dugas’ La Mécanique au XVIIe Siècle (1956)
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    Chapter 22 Costabel’s Leibniz and Dynamics (1975)
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    Chapter 23 John Bernoulli and L’hôpital (1958)
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    Chapter 24 The Works of James Bernoulli (1973)
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    Chapter 25 Daniel Bernoulli’s Hydrodynamica (1960)
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    Chapter 26 Rouse & Ince’s History of Hydraulics (1959)
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    Chapter 27 Hankins’ Jean D’Alembert (1971)
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    Chapter 28 The Mathematical and Physical Papers of G. G. Stokes (1966)
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    Chapter 29 Gillmor’s Coulomb (1973)
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    Chapter 30 Timoshenko’s History of Strength of Materials (1953)
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    Chapter 31 Szabò’s Geschichte der Mechanischen Prinzipien und Ihrer Wichtigsten Anwendungen (1979)
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    Chapter 32 Genius Conquers and Despises the Establishment: Newton
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    Chapter 33 Genius Turns the Establishment to Profit: Euler
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    Chapter 34 The Establishment Stifles Genius: Herapath and Waterston (1968, 1982)
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    Chapter 35 Genius and the Establishment at a Polite Standstill in the Modern University: Bateman (1976, 1981)
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    Chapter 36 The Scholar’s Workshop and Tools (1970, 1976, 1981)
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    Chapter 37 Has the Private University a Future? (1976)
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    Chapter 38 Is There a Philosophy of Science? (1973)
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    Chapter 39 Suppesian Stews (1980/1981)
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    Chapter 40 The Scholar: A Species Threatened by Professions (1972)
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    Chapter 41 The Computer: Ruin of Science and Threat to Mankind (1980/1982)
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    Chapter 42 Of All and of None (1964)
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Chapter title
The Computer: Ruin of Science and Threat to Mankind (1980/1982)
Chapter number 41
Book title
An Idiot’s Fugitive Essays on Science
Published by
Springer New York, January 1984
DOI 10.1007/978-1-4613-8185-3_41
Book ISBNs
978-1-4613-8187-7, 978-1-4613-8185-3
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C. Truesdell

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Student > Ph. D. Student 3 75%
Professor > Associate Professor 1 25%
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Philosophy 1 25%
Linguistics 1 25%
Computer Science 1 25%
Engineering 1 25%