Murnaghan’s Finite Deformation of an Elastic Solid (1952)

Abstract

Apparently intended as a text, this book follows the growing custom of beginning with an introductory chapter containing pure mathematics neither necessary nor sufficient for the applications which follow. The student is deterred from accepting the results without question by frequent interjections of ``(why?)'', ``(prove this)'', and other commands, and the pædagogical usefulness of the work is attested by the numerous simple exercises. The pages, whose crowding with symbols and parenthetical expressions in the text suggest that the publisher confused the manuscript with some work on topology or algebra, are a bit frightening.