Abstract
IT is strange that students should have had to wait till the present time for a systematic English text-book on the mathematical theory of elastic bodies. The want has been decidedly felt at Cambridge since the introduction of the subject into the schedule for the Mathematical Tripos in 1873; and though parts of Thomson and Tait's treatise on natural philosophy, and the reprint of Green's papers, had already brought a large amount of useful matter into an accessible form for those who had not time or opportunity to read the original memoirs, still it was found that learners, naturally looking for some compendious account of the whole subject, generally fell back upon M. Lamé's treatise.
An Elementary Treatise on the Mathematical Theory of Perfectly Elastic Solids; with a Short Account of Viscous Fluids.
By William John Ibbetson (London: Macmillan and Co., 1887.)
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The Mathematical Theory of Perfectly Elastic Solids . Nature 37, 97–98 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/037097a0
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