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Mathematician

Clifford Truesdell was a renowned mathematician known for his contributions to solid mechanics and continuum mechanics. His research involved mathematical modeling, mathematical physics, and mathematical analysis, which had a profound impact on the development of modern mechanics.

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“How did Biot arrive at the partial differential equation? [the heat conduction equation] . . . Perhaps Laplace gave Biot the equation and left him to sink or swim for a few years in trying to derive it. That would have been merely an instance of the way great mathematicians since the very beginnings of mathematical research have effortlessly maintained their superiority over ordinary mortals.”

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“There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot successfully be put into equations, because it is nonsense.”

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Book:Six lectures on modern natural philosophy

Source: Six lectures on modern natural philosophy

“This paper gives wrong solutions to trivial problems. The basic error,however, is not new.”

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Author:Clifford Truesdell

About the Author

Born: February 18, 1919
Died: January 14, 2000
Known for: Mathematician
Quotes: 3

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