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ERIES : Galcit Aeronautical Series / TITLE : Matrix and Tensor Calculus with Applications to Mechanics, Elasticity, and Aeronautics / AUTHOR : Aristotle D. Michal (Aristotle Demetrius Michal, 1899 - 1953) [Professor of Mathematics, CIT 1929-1953. Noted for contributions to functional analysis, modern differential geometry; consultant to US Naval Ordnance Test Station on mathematical problems regarding design, development & use of Naval Ordnance items. - Excerpted from California Institute of Technology Archives and Special Collections ] / / IMPRINT : John Wiley & Sons / PLACE : New York / DATE : August 1947 / EDITION : First Edition, Second Printing / STATUS : Out of Print OP / DETAILS : Trade hardcover ; [xiv] + 132 pages; contains a Preface, a Bibliography, and an index; 5 7/8 x 9 ; gray-blue buckram cloth covered boards and spine; gilt lettering on spine. / PROVENANCE : From the personal collection of Dr. Edmond M. Dewan with his signature and embossed stamp. ****************************************** Excerpted from Dr. Dewan s obituary : Dr. Edmond M. Dewan, a graduate of Duke and Yale Universities, was a renowned physicist who worked for 52 years at Hanscom Field Air Force Base in Bedford. He authored many significant and innovative research papers on diverse fields, including relativity, REM sleep, Kugelblitz (ball lightning), atmospheric turbulence, mezospheric bores, and the effect of the lunar cycle on human fertility. IN 1964 HE DEMONSTRATED THE FIRST INSTANCE OF A HUMAN BEING DIRECTLY CONTROLLING AN EXTERNAL MACHINE USING ONLY BRAINWAVES. He received the Gunther Loesser award in 2001 at Hanscom Field and the Harold Brown award at the Pentagon in 2003. Dr. Dewan was also an inventor and an enthusiastic explorer of a wide range of subjects, often involving the interplay between music, nature and science. ********************************************* Excerpted from the Preface : |> This volume is based on a series of lectures on matrix calculus, and their applications, given under the sponsorship of the Engineering, Science, and Management War Training program (ESMWT), from August 1942 to March 1943. The purpose of the book is to give the reader a working knowledge of the fundamentals of matrix calculus and tensor calculus, which may be applied to his own field. The book is divided into two independent parts, the first dealing with the matrix calculus and its applications, the second with the tensor calculus and its applications. The minimum of mathematical concepts is presented in the introduction to each part, the more advanced mathematical ideas being developed as they are needed in connection with the applications in the later chapters. Further, in the Introduction to Chapter One, the author states : Although matrices have been investigated by mathematicians for almost a century, their thoroughgoing applications to physics, engineering and other subjects such as cryptography, psychology, and educational and other statistical measurements has taken place only since 1925. In particular, the use of matrices in aeronautical engineering in connection with small oscillations, aircraft flutter, and elastic deformations did not receive much attention before 1935. It is interesting that the only book on matrices with systematic chapters on the differential and integral calculus of matrices was written by three aeronautical engineers*. (* Elementary Matrices and Some Applications to Dynamics and Differential Equations Cambridge Univ. 1938) <| ************************************************** CONDITION VERY GOOD This is a previously owned book that remains clean and attractive, with the following particulars noted :: EXTERIOR - Clean and attractive with but mild signs of handling; text-block edges are slightly darkened. / BINDING - Solid - tight. / INTERIOR - Dr. Dewans signature is ta the top of the front paste-down; his personal embossed stamp is on the title page; interior is clean and free of marking. (the. Seller Inventory # 2314
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