Abstract
DISCUSSIONS as to the amount of “learning of mathematics” necessary for the engineer have not been confined to this country, but have, as we learn from the preface, been keenly carried on in Germany. There appears to be a desire in some quarters to sacrifice mathematical teaching to laboratory work, on the ground of the great increase in the number of hours necessary for the latter in consequence of modern developments of electro-technics; and some writers have attempted to bring forward as an argument the rarity of the occasions on which mathematics is required by the engineer, and the large amount of time that is required to obtain a knowledge of that subject.
Résistance des Matériaux et Eléments de la Théorie mathématique de l'Élasticité.
Par Aug. Föppl. Traduit E. Hahn. Pp. 490. (Paris Gauthier-Villars, 1901.) Price fr. 15.
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Résistance des Matériaux et Éléments de la Théorie mathématique de l'Élasticité . Nature 65, 505–506 (1902). https://doi.org/10.1038/065505a0
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